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Learning Android Forensics

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789131017
Length 328 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Oleg Skulkin Oleg Skulkin
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Donnie Tindall Donnie Tindall
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Rohit Tamma Rohit Tamma
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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 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Recovering deleted data from internal memory

Recovering files deleted from Android's internal memory, such as app data and so on, is not as easy as recovering such data from SD cards and SQLite databases, but, of course, it's not impossible. Many commercial forensic tools are capable of recovering deleted data from Android devices, of course, if physical acquisition is possible and the userdata partition isn't encrypted. But this is not very common for modern devices, especially those running most recent versions of the operating system, such as Oreo and Pie.

Most Android devices, especially modern smartphones and tablets, use the EXT4 file system to organize data in their internal storage. This file system is very common for Linux-based devices. So, if we want to recover deleted data from the device's internal storage, we need a tool capable of recovering...

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