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Mobile Forensics Cookbook

You're reading from Mobile Forensics Cookbook Data acquisition, extraction, recovery techniques, and investigations using modern forensic tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785282058

Length 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Oxygen Forensics

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Mikhaylov

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. SIM Card Acquisition and Analysis FREE CHAPTER

2. Android Device Acquisition

3. Apple Device Acquisition

4. Windows Phone and BlackBerry Acquisition

5. Clouds are Alternative Data Sources

6. SQLite Forensics

7. Understanding Plist Forensics

8. Analyzing Physical Dumps and Backups of Android Devices

9. iOS Forensics

10. Windows Phone and BlackBerry Forensics

11. JTAG and Chip-off Techniques

Acquiring Android device through Wi-Fi

This method allows to extract data from an Android mobile device in case the mini-USB port is damaged and you cannot connect the device to the computer with a cable.

Getting ready

Download and install MOBILedit Forensic. This program has been already described previously in Chapter 1 and in this chapter in the Android devices acquisition with MOBILedit Forensic recipe.

How to do it…

Start MOBILedit Forensic.
In the main window of the program, click on Connect. In the opened window of MOBILedit Forensic Wizard, select the Android device and then click on Next.
In the next window, select the type of the device connection with the computer: Wi-Fi.

Next, a window with instructions for downloading the Forensic Connector mobile application will be displayed.
Download Forensic Connector to the examined device from Google Play or use the QR code.

Instructions for downloading the Forensic Connector mobile application

Start Forensic Connector on the device.

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Authors (1)

Mikhaylov

Mikhaylov

Igor Mikhaylov has been working as a forensics expert for 21 years. During this time, he had attended a lot of seminars and training classes in top forensic companies (such as Guidance Software, AccessData, and Cellebrite) and forensic departments of government organizations in the Russian Federation. He has experience and skills in computer forensics, incident response, cellphones forensics, chip-off forensics, malware forensics, data recovery, digital images analysis, video forensics, big data, and other fields. He has worked on several thousand forensic cases. When he works on a forensic case, he examines evidence using in-depth, industry-leading tools and techniques. He uses forensic software and hardware from leaders in the forensics industry. He has written three tutorials on cellphone forensics and incident response for Russian-speaking forensics experts. He is the reviewer of Windows Forensics Cookbook by Oleg Skulkin and Scar de Courcier, Packt Publishing.

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