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Practical Mobile Forensics: Forensically investigate and analyze iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices , Fourth Edition

Rohit Tamma

Mahalik

Satish Bommisetty

Oleg Skulkin

NZ$35.99 ~~NZ$51.99~~

4.3 (9 Ratings)

eBook Apr 2020 400 pages 4th Edition

eBook

NZ$35.99 ~~NZ$51.99~~

Rohit Tamma

Mahalik

Satish Bommisetty

Oleg Skulkin

NZ$35.99 ~~NZ$51.99~~

4.3 (9 Ratings)

eBook Apr 2020 400 pages 4th Edition

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Key benefits

Apply advanced forensic techniques to recover deleted data from mobile devices
Retrieve and analyze data stored not only on mobile devices but also on the cloud and other connected mediums
Use the power of mobile forensics on popular mobile platforms by exploring different tips, tricks, and techniques

Description

Mobile phone forensics is the science of retrieving data from a mobile phone under forensically sound conditions. This updated fourth edition of Practical Mobile Forensics delves into the concepts of mobile forensics and its importance in today's world. The book focuses on teaching you the latest forensic techniques to investigate mobile devices across various mobile platforms. You will learn forensic techniques for multiple OS versions, including iOS 11 to iOS 13, Android 8 to Android 10, and Windows 10. The book then takes you through the latest open source and commercial mobile forensic tools, enabling you to analyze and retrieve data effectively. From inspecting the device and retrieving data from the cloud, through to successfully documenting reports of your investigations, you'll explore new techniques while building on your practical knowledge. Toward the end, you will understand the reverse engineering of applications and ways to identify malware. Finally, the book guides you through parsing popular third-party applications, including Facebook and WhatsApp. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in various mobile forensic techniques to analyze and extract data from mobile devices with the help of open source solutions.

Who is this book for?

This book is for forensic examiners with basic experience in mobile forensics or open source solutions for mobile forensics. Computer security professionals, researchers or anyone looking to gain a deeper understanding of mobile internals will also find this book useful. Some understanding of digital forensic practices will be helpful to grasp the concepts covered in the book more effectively.

What you will learn

Discover new data extraction, data recovery, and reverse engineering techniques in mobile forensics
Understand iOS, Windows, and Android security mechanisms
Identify sensitive files on every mobile platform
Extract data from iOS, Android, and Windows platforms
Understand malware analysis, reverse engineering, and data analysis of mobile devices
Explore various data recovery techniques on all three mobile platforms

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Product Details

Publication date : Apr 09, 2020

Length: 400 pages

Edition : 4th

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781838644420

Vendor :

Apple

Category :

Security

Languages :

Swift

Concepts :

Forensics

Tools :

iOS

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17 Chapters

Introduction to Mobile Forensics

The need for mobile forensics

Understanding mobile forensics

Challenges in mobile forensics

The mobile phone evidence extraction process

Practical mobile forensic approaches

Potential evidence stored on mobile phones

Examination and analysis

Rules of evidence

Good forensic practices

Summary

Section 1: iOS Forensics

Understanding the Internals of iOS Devices

iPhone models and hardware

iPad models and hardware

The HFS Plus and APFS filesystems

The iPhone OS

Summary

Data Acquisition from iOS Devices

Operating modes of iOS devices

Password protection and potential bypasses

Logical acquisition

Filesystem acquisition

Summary

Data Acquisition from iOS Backups

Working with iTunes backups

Creating and analyzing backups with iTunes

Extracting unencrypted backups

Handling encrypted backup files

Working with iCloud backups

Summary

iOS Data Analysis and Recovery

Interpreting iOS timestamps

Working with SQLite databases

Key artifacts – important iOS database files

Property lists

Other important files

Recovering deleted SQLite records

Summary

iOS Forensic Tools

Working with Cellebrite UFED Physical Analyzer

Working with Magnet AXIOM

Working with Belkasoft Evidence Center

Working with Elcomsoft Phone Viewer

Summary

Section 2: Android Forensics

Understanding Android

The evolution of Android

The Android architecture

Android security

The Android file hierarchy

The Android filesystem

Summary

Android Forensic Setup and Pre-Data Extraction Techniques

Setting up a forensic environment for Android

Connecting an Android device to a workstation

Screen lock bypassing techniques

Gaining root access

Summary

Android Data Extraction Techniques

Understanding data extraction techniques

Manual data extraction

Logical data extraction

Physical data extraction

Summary

Android Data Analysis and Recovery

Analyzing and extracting data from Android image files using the Autopsy tool

Understanding techniques to recover deleted files from the SD card and the internal memory

Summary

Android App Analysis, Malware, and Reverse Engineering

Analyzing widely used Android apps to retrieve valuable data

Techniques to reverse engineer an Android application

Android malware

Summary

Section 3: Windows Forensics and Third-Party Apps

Windows Phone Forensics

Windows Phone OS

Windows 10 Mobile security model

Windows Phone filesystem

Data acquisition

Commercial forensic tool acquisition methods

Extracting data without the use of commercial tools

Key artifacts for examination

Summary

Parsing Third-Party Application Files

Introduction to third-party applications

iOS, Android, and Windows Phone application data storage

Forensic methods used to extract third-party application data

Summary

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About the 4 authors

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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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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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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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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