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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
2
Section 1: iOS Forensics
8
Section 2: Android Forensics
14
Section 3: Windows Forensics and Third-Party Apps

Physical data extraction

Physical extraction refers to the process of obtaining an exact bit-by-bit image of a device. It is important to understand that a bit-by-bit image is not the same as copying and pasting the contents of a device. If we copy and paste the contents of a device, it will only copy the available files, such as visible files, hidden files, and system-related files. This method is considered a logical image. With this method, deleted files and files that are not accessible are not copied by the copy command. Deleted files can be recovered (based on the circumstances) using certain techniques, which we will see in the following chapters. Unlike logical extraction, physical extraction is an exact copy of the device's memory and includes more information, such as the slack space and unallocated space.

Android data extraction through physical techniques is commonly...