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Learning Android Forensics

You're reading from  Learning Android Forensics

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782174578
Pages 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Learning Android Forensics
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Introducing Android Forensics 2. Setting Up an Android Forensic Environment 3. Understanding Data Storage on Android Devices 4. Extracting Data Logically from Android Devices 5. Extracting Data Physically from Android Devices 6. Recovering Deleted Data from an Android Device 7. Forensic Analysis of Android Applications 8. Android Forensic Tools Overview Index

Analyzing a full physical image


Once an image has been obtained using one of the discussed methods, an examiner could conceivably go through the image manually and extract each partition, but would probably prefer to avoid doing that. Luckily, there is a wide variety of mobile forensic tools that can ingest a physical image, such as Cellebrite, XRY, Mobile Phone Examiner, and many others. Unfortunately, none of these are free or open source. By far the most popular analysis tool that is free and open source is Autopsy by Brian Carrier.

Autopsy

The Sleuth Kit began as a set of Linux-based command line tools for forensics; eventually, a browser-based GUI named Autopsy was added. Recently, Autopsy has been released as a stand-alone platform on Windows, and includes support for analyzing Android images. Version 3.1.1 is shown in the following screenshots. The full process for loading and analyzing an image will be covered in Chapter 8, Forensic Analysis of Android Applications.

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