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Practical Mobile Forensics

You're reading from   Practical Mobile Forensics Forensically investigate and analyze iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647520
Length 400 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Heather Mahalik Heather Mahalik
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Oleg Skulkin Oleg Skulkin
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Rohit Tamma Rohit Tamma
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Satish Bommisetty Satish Bommisetty
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Mobile Forensics 2. Section 1: iOS Forensics FREE CHAPTER
3. Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices 4. Data Acquisition from iOS Devices 5. Data Acquisition from iOS Backups 6. iOS Data Analysis and Recovery 7. iOS Forensic Tools 8. Section 2: Android Forensics
9. Understanding Android 10. Android Forensic Setup and Pre-Data Extraction Techniques 11. Android Data Extraction Techniques 12. Android Data Analysis and Recovery 13. Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering 14. Section 3: Windows Forensics and Third-Party Apps
15. Windows Phone Forensics 16. Parsing Third-Party Application Files 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Techniques to reverse engineer an Android application

You may need to deal with applications that stand as a barrier to accessing the required information. For instance, take the case of the gallery on a phone that is locked by an AppLock application. In this case, in order to access the pictures and videos stored in the gallery, you first need to enter the passcode to the AppLock. Hence, it would be interesting to know how the AppLock app stores the password on the device. You might look into the SQLite database files. However, if they are encrypted, then it's hard to even tell that it's a password. Reverse engineering applications would be helpful in such cases where you want to better understand the application and how the application stores the data.

To state it in simple terms, reverse engineering is the process of retrieving source code from an executable. Reverse...

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