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Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

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

Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

5 (1)
By: Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty

Overview of this book

Mobile phone forensics is the science of retrieving data from a mobile phone under forensically sound conditions. This updated fourth edition of Practical Mobile Forensics delves into the concepts of mobile forensics and its importance in today's world. The book focuses on teaching you the latest forensic techniques to investigate mobile devices across various mobile platforms. You will learn forensic techniques for multiple OS versions, including iOS 11 to iOS 13, Android 8 to Android 10, and Windows 10. The book then takes you through the latest open source and commercial mobile forensic tools, enabling you to analyze and retrieve data effectively. From inspecting the device and retrieving data from the cloud, through to successfully documenting reports of your investigations, you'll explore new techniques while building on your practical knowledge. Toward the end, you will understand the reverse engineering of applications and ways to identify malware. Finally, the book guides you through parsing popular third-party applications, including Facebook and WhatsApp. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in various mobile forensic techniques to analyze and extract data from mobile devices with the help of open source solutions.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: iOS Forensics
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Section 2: Android Forensics
14
Section 3: Windows Forensics and Third-Party Apps

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to set up a proper forensic workstation before conducting investigations on an Android device. Start with a sterile forensic workstation that has the necessary basic software and device drivers installed on it. If the method of forensic acquisition requires the Android device to be unlocked, you need to determine the best method by which to gain access to the device. If the device has the USB debugging feature enabled, then bypassing the screen-lock is just a cakewalk. We learned about the various screen lock bypass techniques and helped you to determine which one to use under different circumstances. Depending on the forensic acquisition method and the scope of the investigation, rooting the device should provide complete access to the files present on the device. We also learned about rooting and how it can be used to gain complete access...