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iOS Forensics for Investigators

By : Gianluca Tiepolo
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Book Image

iOS Forensics for Investigators

5 (1)
By: Gianluca Tiepolo

Overview of this book

Professionals working in the mobile forensics industry will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide to learning how to extract and analyze all available data from an iOS device. This book is a comprehensive, how-to guide that leads investigators through the process of collecting mobile devices and preserving, extracting, and analyzing data, as well as building a report. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book starts by covering the fundamentals of mobile forensics and how to overcome challenges in extracting data from iOS devices. Once you've walked through the basics of iOS, you’ll learn how to use commercial tools to extract and process data and manually search for artifacts stored in database files. Next, you'll find out the correct workflows for handling iOS devices and understand how to extract valuable information to track device usage. You’ll also get to grips with analyzing key artifacts, such as browser history, the pattern of life data, location data, and social network forensics. By the end of this book, you'll be able to establish a proper workflow for handling iOS devices, extracting all available data, and analyzing it to gather precious insights that can be reported as prosecutable evidence.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Data Acquisition from iOS Devices
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Section 2 – iOS Data Analysis
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Section 3 – Reporting

Creating reports using Cellebrite Physical Analyzer

Many forensic tools can automatically generate reports from artifacts and notes that the examiner made when working on a case. Typically, the report can be exported in a variety of formats, such as a Microsoft Word document, PDF, or HTML page. Although these built-in features are huge time-savers, it's up to the examiner to explain the significance of that evidence and understand the limitations of automatically generated reports.

In this section, we'll learn how to create reports using one of the most popular forensic tools, Cellebrite Physical Analyzer.

There are two types of reports in Cellebrite Physical Analyzer:

  • Preliminary device reports, which are brief documents that only include basic device information and user account information
  • Complete reports, which can be customized to include or exclude any kind of artifact that was parsed by the tool

Let's start by generating a preliminary...