Third-party applications are an integral part of mobile device investigations. Often, the key artifacts seem to exist within an application. This requires the examiner to understand where application data is stored on the device, how application data is saved for this platform, and which tool best helps uncover the evidence. Manual parsing is often a key factor when examining third-party applications on any smartphone. While some commercial tools, such as Magnet IEF, are known for application parsing support, no tool is perfect and it's virtually impossible for tools to keep up with the frequent updates that are released for each application. Most often, you will realize that the commercial tools parse the most popular applications on the market. For example, when Facebook purchased WhatsApp, Cellebrite, IEF, and Oxygen Forensics started supporting this application. Facebook is extremely popular, but data isn't always extracted or parsed, due to security...
Practical Mobile Forensics - Second Edition
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Overview of this book
Mobile phone forensics is the science of retrieving data from a mobile phone under forensically sound conditions. This book is an update to Practical Mobile Forensics and it delves into the concepts of mobile forensics and its importance in today's world.
We will deep dive into mobile forensics techniques in iOS 8 - 9.2, Android 4.4 - 6, and Windows Phone devices. We will demonstrate the latest open source and commercial mobile forensics tools, enabling you to analyze and retrieve data effectively. You will learn how to introspect and retrieve data from cloud, and document and prepare reports for your investigations.
By the end of this book, you will have mastered the current operating systems and techniques so you can recover data from mobile devices by leveraging open source solutions.
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Practical Mobile Forensics - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
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Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Mobile Forensics
Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices
iOS Forensic Tools
Data Acquisition from iOS Devices
Data Acquisition from iOS Backups
iOS Data Analysis and Recovery
Understanding Android
Android Forensic Setup and Pre Data Extraction Techniques
Android Data Extraction Techniques
Android Data Analysis and Recovery
Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering
Windows Phone Forensics
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