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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785282058

Length 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Oxygen Forensics

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Igor Mikhaylov

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

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

Parsing plist with plist Editor Pro

Plist Editor Pro is a tool for plist-files analysis that was recommended by Heather Mahalik and Rohit Tamma, the authors of the book Practical Mobile Forensics, Second Edition. Using this tool, plist-files with XML format and binary files can be analyzed.

Getting ready

Download the tool to your computer and install it, following the instructions from the installer.

The plist Editor Pro web page can be found at http://www.icopybot.com/plist-editor.htm.

How to do it…

Start the program by double-clicking on the icon:

Plist Editor Pro icon

When the program starts, select View and then Read only mode in the menu. It will protect the examined file contents from accidental changes:

The Read only mode flag in the View menu

In order to open the plist-file, in the drop-down File menu, select Open:

XML View mode

In the opened window, select the file and click Open. The opened file can be viewed in two modes, XML View andList View:

List View mode

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Authors (1)

Mikhaylov

Mikhaylov

Igor Mikhaylov has been working as a forensics expert for 21 years. During this time, he had attended a lot of seminars and training classes in top forensic companies (such as Guidance Software, AccessData, and Cellebrite) and forensic departments of government organizations in the Russian Federation. He has experience and skills in computer forensics, incident response, cellphones forensics, chip-off forensics, malware forensics, data recovery, digital images analysis, video forensics, big data, and other fields. He has worked on several thousand forensic cases. When he works on a forensic case, he examines evidence using in-depth, industry-leading tools and techniques. He uses forensic software and hardware from leaders in the forensics industry. He has written three tutorials on cellphone forensics and incident response for Russian-speaking forensics experts. He is the reviewer of Windows Forensics Cookbook by Oleg Skulkin and Scar de Courcier, Packt Publishing.

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