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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

Chapter 5: Pattern-of-Life Forensics

In the previous chapter, we learned all about different kinds of artifacts that can be found on iOS devices, such as SQLite databases and plists, and how to manually analyze these files. In this chapter, we will use this knowledge to work with some of the most interesting databases from a forensics perspective, such as the KnowledgeC database, which is the go-to solution for pattern-of-life forensics.

Pattern-of-life data is all about the habits that the device owner carries out in their day-to-day life. When it comes to smartphones, this includes what apps have been used at any given point in time and for how long, when the device was unlocked, what the battery temperature was, and what webpage the user was browsing.

We'll start the chapter by defining pattern-of-life forensics to get a better understanding of what kind of data we may encounter in an iOS device investigation. We will then discuss timestamps and how to convert them between...

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