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You're reading from Learning Android Forensics Analyze Android devices with the latest forensic tools and techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789131017

Length 328 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Forensics

Authors (3):

Oleg Skulkin

Donnie Tindall

Rohit Tamma

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Android Forensics FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting up the Android Forensic Environment

3. Understanding Data Storage on Android Devices

4. Extracting Data Logically from Android Devices

5. Extracting Data Physically from Android Devices

6. Recovering Deleted Data from an Android Device

7. Forensic Analysis of Android Applications

8. Android Forensic Tools Overview

9. Identifying Android Malware

10. Android Malware Analysis

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Acquiring Android SD cards

As discussed previously in this chapter and in previous chapters, the SD card can refer to a physical, external SD card or a partition within the flash memory. A removable external SD card can be imaged separately from the device through a write-blocker with typical computer forensics tools, or using the dd/nanddump techniques shown previously, although the former is usually faster due to not needing to write data over netcat.

Physically imaging an SD card is extremely similar to the physical imaging that we discussed previously; in fact, if the SD card is symbolically linked to the /data partition, it would be acquired as part of the /data partition, as seen in the Autopsy section's screenshots. The only difference in the process is that if the SD card is being imaged, the output file cannot be written to the SD card! This means that using the...

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Authors (3)

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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Tindall

Donnie Tindall is a Principal Incident Response Consultant with the Crypsis Group, where he handles incident response engagements encompassing the full lifecycle of cyber security events. His corporate and consulting background is primarily in conducting sensitive forensics examinations for federal government clients, particularly the U.S. military and the Intelligence Community. Before moving into Incident Response, Donnie had an extensive background in mobile forensics, application security research, and exploitation. He is also an IACIS Certified Forensic Computer Examiner and former Community Instructor of FOR585, the SANS Institute's smartphone forensics course.

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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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