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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785282058
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Igor Mikhaylov Igor Mikhaylov
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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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