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iOS Forensics for Investigators

iOS Forensics for Investigators

By : Tiepolo
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iOS Forensics for Investigators

iOS Forensics for Investigators

4.5 (4)
By: 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)
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Section 1 – Data Acquisition from iOS Devices
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Section 2 – iOS Data Analysis
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Section 3 – Reporting

Chapter 4: Working with Common iOS Artifacts

In previous chapters, we discussed in broad terms how the iOS operating system works and the different phases of the mobile examination workflow. Then, we learned all about different acquisition methods and how to extract the richest amount of data from a device. In the third chapter, we looked at forensic tools and continued our examination process by loading the data into the tool for analysis.

One of the most critical aspects of a mobile forensics investigation is validating your findings. We've already discussed the importance of tool validation in earlier chapters, but the process should be extended to ensure the integrity of the data collected and to understand and explain the context of the data, as this is essential for presenting it as evidence in court. This usually entails following the source file and manually viewing the artifacts in their native format.

In this chapter, we first look at the most common types of artifacts...

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