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Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

Practical Mobile Forensics: Forensically investigate and analyze iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices, Fourth Edition

By Rohit Tamma , Oleg Skulkin , Heather Mahalik , Satish Bommisetty
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Publication date : Apr 9, 2020
Length 400 pages
Edition : 4th Edition
Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781838647520
Vendor :
Apple
Category :
Security
Concepts :
Forensics
Tools :
iOS (Beginner) , Android (Beginner)
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Key benefits

  • Apply advanced forensic techniques to recover deleted data from mobile devices
  • Retrieve and analyze data stored not only on mobile devices but also on the cloud and other connected mediums
  • Use the power of mobile forensics on popular mobile platforms by exploring different tips, tricks, and techniques

Description

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.

What you will learn

Discover new data extraction, data recovery, and reverse engineering techniques in mobile forensics Understand iOS, Windows, and Android security mechanisms Identify sensitive files on every mobile platform Extract data from iOS, Android, and Windows platforms Understand malware analysis, reverse engineering, and data analysis of mobile devices Explore various data recovery techniques on all three mobile platforms

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Publication date : Apr 9, 2020
Length 400 pages
Edition : 4th Edition
Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781838647520
Vendor :
Apple
Category :
Security
Concepts :
Forensics
Tools :
iOS (Beginner) , Android (Beginner)

Table of Contents

18 Chapters
Preface Packt Packt
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Disclaimer
Get in touch
Introduction to Mobile Forensics Packt Packt
Introduction to Mobile Forensics
The need for mobile forensics
Understanding mobile forensics
Challenges in mobile forensics
The mobile phone evidence extraction process
Practical mobile forensic approaches
Potential evidence stored on mobile phones
Examination and analysis
Rules of evidence
Good forensic practices
Summary
Section 1: iOS Forensics Packt Packt
Section 1: iOS Forensics
Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices Packt Packt
Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices
iPhone models and hardware
iPad models and hardware
The HFS Plus and APFS filesystems
The iPhone OS
Summary
Data Acquisition from iOS Devices Packt Packt
Data Acquisition from iOS Devices
Operating modes of iOS devices
Password protection and potential bypasses
Logical acquisition
Filesystem acquisition
Summary
Data Acquisition from iOS Backups Packt Packt
Data Acquisition from iOS Backups
Working with iTunes backups
Creating and analyzing backups with iTunes
Extracting unencrypted backups
Handling encrypted backup files
Working with iCloud backups
Summary
iOS Data Analysis and Recovery Packt Packt
iOS Data Analysis and Recovery
Interpreting iOS timestamps
Working with SQLite databases
Key artifacts – important iOS database files
Property lists
Other important files
Recovering deleted SQLite records
Summary
iOS Forensic Tools Packt Packt
iOS Forensic Tools
Working with Cellebrite UFED Physical Analyzer
Working with Magnet AXIOM
Working with Belkasoft Evidence Center
Working with Elcomsoft Phone Viewer
Summary
Section 2: Android Forensics Packt Packt
Section 2: Android Forensics
Understanding Android Packt Packt
Understanding Android
The evolution of Android
The Android architecture
Android security
The Android file hierarchy
The Android filesystem
Summary
Android Forensic Setup and Pre-Data Extraction Techniques Packt Packt
Android Forensic Setup and Pre-Data Extraction Techniques
Setting up a forensic environment for Android
Connecting an Android device to a workstation
Screen lock bypassing techniques
Gaining root access
Summary
Android Data Extraction Techniques Packt Packt
Android Data Extraction Techniques
Understanding data extraction techniques
Manual data extraction
Logical data extraction
Physical data extraction
Summary
Android Data Analysis and Recovery Packt Packt
Android Data Analysis and Recovery
Analyzing and extracting data from Android image files using the Autopsy tool
Understanding techniques to recover deleted files from the SD card and the internal memory
Summary
Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering Packt Packt
Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering
Analyzing widely used Android apps to retrieve valuable data
Techniques to reverse engineer an Android application
Android malware
Summary
Section 3: Windows Forensics and Third-Party Apps Packt Packt
Section 3: Windows Forensics and Third-Party Apps
Windows Phone Forensics Packt Packt
Windows Phone Forensics
Windows Phone OS
Windows 10 Mobile security model
Windows Phone filesystem
Data acquisition
Commercial forensic tool acquisition methods
Extracting data without the use of commercial tools
Key artifacts for examination
Summary
Parsing Third-Party Application Files Packt Packt
Parsing Third-Party Application Files
Introduction to third-party applications
iOS, Android, and Windows Phone application data storage
Forensic methods used to extract third-party application data
Summary
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Profile Rohit Tamma
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Rohit Tamma is a senior program manager currently working with Microsoft. With over 10 years of experience in the field of security, his background spans management and technical consulting roles in the areas of application and cloud security, mobile security, penetration testing, and secure coding. Rohit has also co-authored Learning Android Forensics, from Packt, which explain various ways to perform forensics on mobile platforms. You can contact him on Twitter at @RohitTamma.
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Profile Satish Bommisetty
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Satish Bommisetty is a security architect currently working with JDA. His primary areas of interest include web and mobile application security, cloud security, and iOS forensics. He has presented at security conferences, such as ClubHACK and C0C0n. Satish is one of the top bug bounty hunters and is listed in the halls of fame of Google, Facebook, PayPal, Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce, and more, for identifying and reporting their security vulnerabilities. You can reach him on Twitter at @satishb3.
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Profile Heather Mahalik
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Heather Mahalik is the senior director of digital intelligence at Cellebrite. She is a senior instructor and author for the SANS Institute, and she is also the course lead for the FOR585 Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth course. With 18 years of experience in digital forensics, she continues to thrive on smartphone investigations, digital forensics, forensic course development and instruction, and research on application analysis and smartphone forensics.
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Profile Satish Bommisetty
Satish Bommisetty is a security analyst working for a Fortune 500 company. His primary areas of interest include iOS forensics, iOS application security, and web application security. He has presented at international conferences, such as ClubHACK and C0C0n. He is also one of the core members of the Hyderabad OWASP chapter. He has identified and disclosed vulnerabilities within the websites of Google, Facebook, Yandex, PayPal, Yahoo!, AT&T, and more, and they are listed in their hall of fame.
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Oleg Skulkin is the Head of Digital Forensics and Malware Analysis Laboratory at Group-IB. Oleg has worked in the fields of digital forensics, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence and research for over a decade, fueling his passion for uncovering new techniques used by hidden adversaries. Oleg has authored and co-authored multiple blog posts, papers, and books on related topics and holds GCFA and GCTI certifications.
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