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Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition

By : Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
Book Image

Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition

By: Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty

Overview of this book

Covering up-to-date mobile platforms, this book will focuses on teaching you the most recent techniques for investigating mobile devices. We delve mobile forensics techniques in iOS 9-11, Android 7-8 devices, and Windows 10. 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 the cloud, and document and prepare reports of your investigations. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the current operating systems and the relevant techniques to recover data from mobile devices by leveraging open source solutions.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
5
iOS Data Analysis and Recovery

Analyzing an Android image


The term Android image refers to the physical image (also called forensic image or raw image) that is obtained by performing any of the physical data extraction techniques. Using the techniques explained in Chapter 9, Android Data Extraction Techniques, you can image the entire /data/data block, or any particular block that is of relevance to the investigation. Once the image is obtained, an investigator can manually go through the contents of the file or take advantage of the available tools to parse through the contents. Commercial tools, such as Cellebrite, XRY, and so on, can drill into the data and present a comprehensive picture of the contents. Autopsy is one of the very widely used open source tools in the forensics world that performs an excellent job of analyzing an Android image.

Autopsy

Autopsy is a forensic platform and acts as a GUI for the Sleuth Kit. It is available for free; you can download it at: http://www.sleuthkit.org/. The Sleuth Kit is a collection...