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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

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786464200

Length 412 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Android

Concepts

Forensics

Authors (3):

Rohit Tamma

Satish Bommisetty

Heather Mahalik

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Mobile Forensics FREE CHAPTER

2. Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices

3. iOS Forensic Tools

4. Data Acquisition from iOS Devices

5. Data Acquisition from iOS Backups

6. iOS Data Analysis and Recovery

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

Other important files

Apart from SQLite and plist files, several other locations may contain valuable information to an investigation.

The others sources include the following:

Cookies
Keyboard cache
Photos
Wallpaper
Snapshots
Recordings
Third-party applications

Cookies

Cookies can be recovered from /private/var/mobile/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies. This file is a standard binary file containing cookies that are saved when web pages are accessed on the device. This information can be a good indication of what websites the user has been actively visiting. Keep in mind that third-party applications may also contain this file.

To convert the binary cookie to human readable format, run the BinaryCookieReader.py Python script on the cookie file, as in the following command (the Python script source code is available in the code bundle of the book):

$python BinaryCookieReader.py Cookies.binarycookies
Cookie :  __utma=167051323.813879307.1359034257.1367989551.1386632713.9;  domain=.testflightapp.com...

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Authors (3)

Mahalik

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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Rohit Tamma

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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Satish Bommisetty

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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