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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838647520

Length 400 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

Android

Concepts

Forensics

Authors (4):

Heather Mahalik

Oleg Skulkin

Rohit Tamma

Satish Bommisetty

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

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Filesystem acquisition

Secure Enclave has brought new challenges to iOS forensic examiners. We can't extract the encryption keys that are required to decrypt the device image, so performing physical acquisition is useless. But there is filesystem acquisition. Unfortunately, in most cases, it requires the iOS device to be jailbroken. The next section will show you how to jailbreak an iPhone running iOS 11.4.1 with Electra and an iPhone running iOS 13.2 with Checkra1n.

Practical jailbreaking

To perform filesystem acquisition, we need our iOS device to be jailbroken. The steps to jailbreak an iOS device running 11.4.1 are as follows:

Download Electra from: https://github.com/coolstar/electra-ipas/raw/master/Electra1141...

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Authors (4)

Rohit Tamma

Rohit Tamma is a senior program manager currently working with Microsoft. With over 10 years of experience in the field of security, his background spans management and technical consulting roles in the areas of application and cloud security, mobile security, penetration testing, and secure coding. Rohit has also co-authored Learning Android Forensics, from Packt, which explain various ways to perform forensics on mobile platforms. You can contact him on Twitter at @RohitTamma.

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Mahalik

Heather Mahalik is the senior director of digital intelligence at Cellebrite. She is a senior instructor and author for the SANS Institute, and she is also the course lead for the FOR585 Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth course. With 18 years of experience in digital forensics, she continues to thrive on smartphone investigations, digital forensics, forensic course development and instruction, and research on application analysis and smartphone forensics.

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Satish Bommisetty

Satish Bommisetty is a security architect currently working with JDA. His primary areas of interest include web and mobile application security, cloud security, and iOS forensics. He has presented at security conferences, such as ClubHACK and C0C0n. Satish is one of the top bug bounty hunters and is listed in the halls of fame of Google, Facebook, PayPal, Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce, and more, for identifying and reporting their security vulnerabilities. You can reach him on Twitter at @satishb3.

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Oleg Skulkin

Oleg Skulkin is the Head of Digital Forensics and Malware Analysis Laboratory at Group-IB. Oleg has worked in the fields of digital forensics, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence and research for over a decade, fueling his passion for uncovering new techniques used by hidden adversaries. Oleg has authored and co-authored multiple blog posts, papers, and books on related topics and holds GCFA and GCTI certifications.

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