Rooting is a word that is very often heard with respect to Android devices. As a forensic examiner, it is essential to understand this in detail. This would help you to gain knowledge that is required to understand the internals of the device and gain expertise on several issues that are encountered during an investigation. Rooting Android phones has become a common phenomenon and very often rooted phones are encountered during investigations. Also, depending upon the situation and data to be extracted, the examiner themself has to root the device in order to extract certain data. The following sections cover rooting an Android device and other related concepts in detail.

Learning Android Forensics
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Learning Android Forensics
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Overview of this book
Many forensic examiners rely on commercial, push-button tools to retrieve and analyze data, even though there is no tool that does either of these jobs perfectly.
Learning Android Forensics will introduce you to the most up-to-date Android platform and its architecture, and provide a high-level overview of what Android forensics entails. You will understand how data is stored on Android devices and how to set up a digital forensic examination environment. As you make your way through the chapters, you will work through various physical and logical techniques to extract data from devices in order to obtain forensic evidence. You will also learn how to recover deleted data and forensically analyze application data with the help of various open source and commercial tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore malware analysis so that you’ll be able to investigate cybersecurity incidents involving Android malware.
By the end of this book, you will have a complete understanding of the Android forensic process, you will have explored open source and commercial forensic tools, and will have basic skills of Android malware identification and analysis.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Preface
Introducing Android Forensics
Setting up the Android Forensic Environment
Understanding Data Storage on Android Devices
Extracting Data Logically from Android Devices
Extracting Data Physically from Android Devices
Recovering Deleted Data from an Android Device
Forensic Analysis of Android Applications
Android Forensic Tools Overview
Identifying Android Malware
Android Malware Analysis
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