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Learning Android Forensics

Learning Android Forensics

By : Oleg Skulkin, Tindall, Rohit Tamma
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Learning Android Forensics

Learning Android Forensics

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By: Oleg Skulkin, Tindall, Rohit Tamma

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)
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Autopsy

Autopsy is a free and open source analysis tool initially developed by Brian Carrier. Autopsy started as a graphical user interface for the underlying Linux-based SleuthKit toolset, but since version 3, it is a standalone tool built for Windows. Autopsy can be downloaded from http://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/.

Autopsy is not intended to perform acquisitions of mobile devices, but can analyze most common Android filesystems (such as YAFFS and EXT). For this example, we will load a full physical image obtained via dd from a Samsung Galaxy J7.

Creating a case in Autopsy

Upon opening Autopsy, the user will be prompted to create New Case, Open Recent Case, or Open Case:

We will be creating a new case. Follow these steps...

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