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Practical Mobile Forensics

Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

By : Rohit Tamma, Satish Bommisetty, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik
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Practical Mobile Forensics

Practical Mobile Forensics

4.3 (8)
By: Rohit Tamma, Satish Bommisetty, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik

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

Android malware

As Android's market share continues to increase, so do attacks or malware targeted at Android users. Mobile malware is a broad term that refers to a piece of software that performs unintended actions and includes Trojans, spyware, adware, ransomware, and others. According to pandasecurity, Android devices are 50 times more infected with malware compared to iOS devices (https://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/mobile-security/android-more-infected-than-ios/). In 2019, the famous Agent Smith malware alone infected almost 25 million Android devices, as per a Cybersecurity Hub news report (https://www.cshub.com/malware/articles/incident-of-the-week-malware-infects-25m-android-phones).

One of the primary reasons for this situation is that, unlike Apple's App Store, which is tightly controlled by the company, Google's Play Store is an open ecosystem...

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