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iOS Forensics for Investigators

You're reading from iOS Forensics for Investigators Take mobile forensics to the next level by analyzing, extracting, and reporting sensitive evidence

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803234083

Length 316 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

iOS

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Gianluca Tiepolo

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Data Acquisition from iOS Devices

2. Chapter 1: Introducing iOS Forensics FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Data Acquisition from iOS Devices

4. Section 2 – iOS Data Analysis

5. Chapter 3: Using Forensic Tools

6. Chapter 4: Working with Common iOS Artifacts

7. Chapter 5: Pattern-of-Life Forensics

8. Chapter 6: Dissecting Location Data

9. Chapter 7: Analyzing Connectivity Data

10. Chapter 8: Email and Messaging Forensics

11. Chapter 9: Photo, Video, and Audio Forensics

12. Chapter 10: Analyzing Third-Party Apps

13. Chapter 11: Locked Devices, iTunes Backups, and iCloud Forensics

14. Section 3 – Reporting

15. Chapter 12: Writing a Forensic Report and Building a Timeline

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Recovering deleted messages

One of the most common tasks in a mobile device investigation is to attempt the recovery of data that was deleted by the user, such as chats and messages, as these may contain invaluable evidence.

In this chapter, we learned that SMS messages and chats from third-party applications are all stored in SQLite databases; this means that the ability to recover deleted chats effectively depends on the possibility of recovering any records from the SQLite database.

In Chapter 4, Working with Common iOS Artifacts, we discussed several options for the recovery of deleted records, such as the following:

Parsing through the database using a hex viewer
String carving
Analyzing the Write Ahead Log (WAL) files
Using forensic tools such as FQLite to recover data from free blocks and unallocated space

All of these solutions can be effective in recovering deleted messages, but only if the database was not vacuumed after the records were purged...

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Authors (1)

Tiepolo

Tiepolo

Gianluca Tiepolo is a cybersecurity researcher who specializes in mobile forensics and incident response. He holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and an MSc in Information Security, as well as several security-related certifications. Over the past 12 years, he has performed security monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, and intelligence analysis as a consultant for dozens of organizations, including several Fortune 100 companies. Gianluca is also the co-founder of the startup Sixth Sense Solutions, which developed AI-based anti-fraud solutions. Today, Gianluca works as a Security Delivery Team Lead for consulting firm Accenture Security. In 2016, he authored the book Getting Started with RethinkDB, published by Packt Publishing.

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