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iOS Forensics Cookbook

You're reading from   iOS Forensics Cookbook Over 20 recipes that will enable you to handle and extract data from iOS devices for forensics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783988464
Length 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bhanu Birani Bhanu Birani
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Exploring iPhone Backup Analyzer

In this section, we are going to explore the iOS forensic tool, iPhone Backup Analyzer.

Getting ready

iPhone Backup Analyzer is a Java-based product that can be used on multiple platforms, such as Windows, Linux, and Mac. You can download the JAR file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/iphoneanalyzer/files/latest/download. This is an open source tool that can be used to extract the iTunes backup files. Most of the time, this tool is used for extracting and analyzing existing backups. However, if needed, this tool can also make a backup.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to analyze the iTunes backup:

  1. The first step is to get the copy of the backup data; in order to locate the data, you can go to the following directory:
    1. For Windows 7 and above: <user_home>\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
    2. For Mac: /Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
  2. Once you have navigated to the preceding path, you should be able to see something like...
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