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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

Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering

Third-party applications are commonly used by smartphone users. Android users download and install several apps from app stores such as Google Play. During forensic investigations, it is often helpful to perform an analysis of these apps to retrieve valuable data and to detect any malware. For instance, a photo vault app might lock sensitive images present on a device. Hence, it would be of great significance to have the knowledge to identify the passcode for the photo vault app.

Also, apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype, and so on are widely used these days, and they are often the source of valuable data that aids in cracking a case. Hence, it is important to know what kind of data these apps store and the location of this data. While the data extraction and data recovery techniques we discussed in earlier chapters provide...