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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
4
Section 2 – iOS Data Analysis
14
Section 3 – Reporting

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about connectivity data and how iOS devices communicate through cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth technologies.

First, we introduced cellular forensics and learned how to extract cellular-related data from an iOS extraction, such as the device's IMSI and IMEI codes. Then, we analyzed the PowerLog to view the relevant events, such as the device registering with the cellular network.

After that, we focused on phone calls and learned how to extract contact data from the address book, as well as how to access the call log, which contains details of all incoming and outgoing communications, including FaceTime videocalls. Then, we introduced the topic of network usage and learned which queries allow an investigator to see which processes were running on a device, as well as how much networking data they were consuming.

Finally, we learned about Safari forensics. We took an in-depth look at where common Safari artifacts are located and how to...