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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

By : Igor Mikhaylov
Book Image

Mobile Forensics Cookbook

By: Igor Mikhaylov

Overview of this book

Considering the emerging use of mobile phones, there is a growing need for mobile forensics. Mobile forensics focuses specifically on performing forensic examinations of mobile devices, which involves extracting, recovering and analyzing data for the purposes of information security, criminal and civil investigations, and internal investigations. Mobile Forensics Cookbook starts by explaining SIM cards acquisition and analysis using modern forensics tools. You will discover the different software solutions that enable digital forensic examiners to quickly and easily acquire forensic images. You will also learn about forensics analysis and acquisition on Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry devices. Next, you will understand the importance of cloud computing in the world of mobile forensics and understand different techniques available to extract data from the cloud. Going through the fundamentals of SQLite and Plists Forensics, you will learn how to extract forensic artifacts from these sources with appropriate tools. By the end of this book, you will be well versed with the advanced mobile forensics techniques that will help you perform the complete forensic acquisition and analysis of user data stored in different devices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

iOS backup parsing with UFED Physical Analyzer


UFED Physical Analyzer is a tool that is provided together with Cellebrite products such as UFED 4PC, UFED Touch, UFED Touch 2, UFED UME-36, and so on. Using this tool, you can analyze the following extracted data: physical dumps, backups, and filesystems of mobile devices, and also you can extract data from Apple mobile devices and from GPS/mass storage devices.  UFED Physical Analyzer includes SQLite Wizard, which we described in Chapter 7, Understanding Plist Forensics.

Getting ready

You can request a trial license of UFED Physical Analyzer from Cellebrite distributors. In response to the request, you will receive an email with links to the distribution kits. Download UFED Physical Analyzer. Double-click the icon for the setup file of the program. Follow the instructions to install UFED Physical Analyzer. When the installation is finished, click the icon for UFED Physical Analyzer.

When the program has started, it will show a window that indicates...