Chapter 9: Photo, Video, and Audio Forensics
In the first few chapters of the book, we focused on the identification and analysis of mobile evidence stored in system-generated artifacts such as databases, PLISTs, and log files. However, any type of investigation will also typically involve analyzing user-generated content found on a device, such as media files.
A modern iOS device can contain tens of thousands of media files, and each of these files is associated with unique metadata that can be critical to an investigation. In this chapter, we will learn how to identify and analyze multimedia content such as photos, videos, and audio files.
We will start the chapter with an introduction to media forensics and discuss where photos, videos, and audio recordings are stored on an iOS device. Then, we'll learn all about analyzing media metadata to gain meaningful insights, both from the file itself and from the corresponding databases. In the last part of the chapter, we will...
