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Learning Android Forensics

You're reading from   Learning Android Forensics A hands-on guide to Android forensics, from setting up the forensic workstation to analyzing key forensic artifacts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782174578
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing Android Forensics FREE CHAPTER 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

Chapter 7. Forensic Analysis of Android Applications

This chapter will cover application analysis, using free and open source tools. It will focus on analyzing the data that would be recovered using any of the logical or physical techniques detailed in Chapters 4 and Chapter 5. It will also rely heavily on the storage methods discussed in Chapter 2. We will see numerous SQLite databases, XML files, and other file types from various locations within the file hierarchy described in the second chapter. By the end of this chapter, you should be familiar with the following topics:

  • An overview of application analysis:
    • Contacts/Calls/SMS
    • Wi-Fi
    • User dictionary
  • Third-party applications and various methods used by popular applications to store and obfuscate data listed as follows:
    • Plain text
    • Epoch time
    • WebKit time
    • Misnaming file extensions
    • Julian dates
    • Base64 encoding
    • Encryption
    • Basic steganography
    • SQLCipher
  • Basic application reverse engineering
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