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iOS Forensics for Investigators

iOS Forensics for Investigators

By : Tiepolo
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iOS Forensics for Investigators

iOS Forensics for Investigators

4.5 (6)
By: Tiepolo

Overview of this book

Professionals working in the mobile forensics industry will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide to learning how to extract and analyze all available data from an iOS device. This book is a comprehensive, how-to guide that leads investigators through the process of collecting mobile devices and preserving, extracting, and analyzing data, as well as building a report. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book starts by covering the fundamentals of mobile forensics and how to overcome challenges in extracting data from iOS devices. Once you've walked through the basics of iOS, you’ll learn how to use commercial tools to extract and process data and manually search for artifacts stored in database files. Next, you'll find out the correct workflows for handling iOS devices and understand how to extract valuable information to track device usage. You’ll also get to grips with analyzing key artifacts, such as browser history, the pattern of life data, location data, and social network forensics. By the end of this book, you'll be able to establish a proper workflow for handling iOS devices, extracting all available data, and analyzing it to gather precious insights that can be reported as prosecutable evidence.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1 – Data Acquisition from iOS Devices
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Section 2 – iOS Data Analysis
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Section 3 – Reporting

Locating common artifacts

Application-related artifacts are essential for an iOS investigation, but device settings, logs, and user-generated content are also important. In this final section of the chapter, we'll look into some common locations within the iOS filesystem that the examiner can quickly review to gather more information:

  • The starting point for any iOS examination will most likely be /private/var/mobile/Library/, as this folder contains artifacts that relate to device information as well as data pertaining to the user's iCloud account. Table 4.2 illustrates some of the files that may be of interest.
  • /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/ contains device configuration files and user-defined settings, such as language, device name, time settings, and so on. Most of the artifacts will be plists, either in XML or binary format.
  • Artifacts relating to the SIM card such as the phone number, IMEI, and network carrier can be found by analyzing the plists...
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