Mobile Forensics Cookbook

Discover the tools and techniques of mobile forensic investigations and make sure your mobile autopsy doesn’t miss a thing, all through powerful practical recipes

Key Features

• Acquire in-depth knowledge of mobile device acquisition using modern forensic tools
• Understand the importance of clouds for mobile forensics and learn how to extract data from them
• Discover advanced data extraction techniques that will help you to solve forensic tasks and challenges

Book Description

Considering the emerging use of mobile phones, there is a growing need for mobile forensics. Mobile forensics focuses specifically on performing forensic examinations of mobile devices, which involves extracting, recovering and analyzing data for the purposes of information security, criminal and civil investigations, and internal investigations.

Mobile Forensics Cookbook starts by explaining SIM cards acquisition and analysis using modern forensics tools. You will discover the different software solutions that enable digital forensic examiners to quickly and easily acquire forensic images. You will also learn about forensics analysis and acquisition on Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry devices. Next, you will understand the importance of cloud computing in the world of mobile forensics and understand different techniques available to extract data from the cloud. Going through the fundamentals of SQLite and Plists Forensics, you will learn how to extract forensic artifacts from these sources with appropriate tools.

By the end of this book, you will be well versed with the advanced mobile forensics techniques that will help you perform the complete forensic acquisition and analysis of user data stored in different devices.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Sim Card Acquisition And Analysis
Chapter 2. Android Device Acquisition
Chapter 3. Apple Device Acquisition
Chapter 4. Windows Phone And Blackberry Acquisition
Chapter 5. Clouds Are Alternative Data Sources
Chapter 6. Sqlite Forensics
Chapter 7. Understanding Plist Forensics
Chapter 8. Analyzing Physical Dumps And Backups Of Android Devices
Chapter 9. Ios Forensics
Chapter 10. Windows Phone And Blackberry Forensics
Chapter 11. Jtag And Chip-Off Techniques