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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

You're reading from Mobile Forensics Cookbook Data acquisition, extraction, recovery techniques, and investigations using modern forensic tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785282058

Length 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Oxygen Forensics

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Igor Mikhaylov

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. SIM Card Acquisition and Analysis FREE CHAPTER

2. Android Device Acquisition

3. Apple Device Acquisition

4. Windows Phone and BlackBerry Acquisition

5. Clouds are Alternative Data Sources

6. SQLite Forensics

7. Understanding Plist Forensics

8. Analyzing Physical Dumps and Backups of Android Devices

9. iOS Forensics

10. Windows Phone and BlackBerry Forensics

11. JTAG and Chip-off Techniques

Introduction

Property lists (plist) are system files that are used in the iOS and macOS operating systems for different kinds of data storage. They can be used by both operating systems and applications. Plists are good for storing arrays, dictionaries, and strings.

Plists are XML files, but with some differences. For example, the order of tags in this file is determined by some rules: they are key-value pairs, but tags of the key type and tags of the value type are on the same level. For example:

<key>Device Name</key>
<string>iPhone Olja</string>
<key>GUID</key>
<string>D526CA3328B0A964372B4E93C12D5C74</string>
<key>ICCID</key>
<string>897010220192766690f</string>
<key>IMEI</key>
<string>013429003240443</string>

In order to speed up the process of reading and writing, plist are often made binary by converting them into binary plist (bplist) format. An expert has to decode this kind of file by using...

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Authors (1)

Mikhaylov

Mikhaylov

Igor Mikhaylov has been working as a forensics expert for 21 years. During this time, he had attended a lot of seminars and training classes in top forensic companies (such as Guidance Software, AccessData, and Cellebrite) and forensic departments of government organizations in the Russian Federation. He has experience and skills in computer forensics, incident response, cellphones forensics, chip-off forensics, malware forensics, data recovery, digital images analysis, video forensics, big data, and other fields. He has worked on several thousand forensic cases. When he works on a forensic case, he examines evidence using in-depth, industry-leading tools and techniques. He uses forensic software and hardware from leaders in the forensics industry. He has written three tutorials on cellphone forensics and incident response for Russian-speaking forensics experts. He is the reviewer of Windows Forensics Cookbook by Oleg Skulkin and Scar de Courcier, Packt Publishing.

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