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Practical Mobile Forensics

You're reading from   Practical Mobile Forensics A hands-on guide to mastering mobile forensics for the iOS, Android, and the Windows Phone platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788839198
Length 402 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Oleg Skulkin Oleg Skulkin
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Satish Bommisetty Satish Bommisetty
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Rohit Tamma Rohit Tamma
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Heather Mahalik Heather Mahalik
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Windows Phone filesystem


The Windows Phone filesystem is more or less similar to the filesystems used in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. From the root directory, one can reach different files and folders that are available on this device. From a forensic perspective, the following are some of the folders that can yield valuable data. All the listed directories are located in the root directory:

  • Application data: This directory contains data of preinstalled apps on the phone, such as Outlook, Maps, and Internet Explorer.
  • Applications: This directory contains the apps installed by the user. The isolated storage, which is allocated or used by each app, is also located in this folder.
  • My Documents: This directory holds different Office documents, such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files . The directory also includes configuration files and multimedia files, such as music or videos.
  • Windows: This directory contains files that are related to the Windows Phone operating system.

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