Learning Android Forensics

Analyze Android devices with the latest forensic tools and techniques

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Oleg Skulkin, Donnie Tindall and Rohit Tamma

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|Sep 2024

E-Book €28.99Institutions €126.95

Description

A comprehensive guide to Android forensics, from setting up the workstation to analyzing key artifacts

Key Features

Get up and running with modern mobile forensic strategies and techniques
Analyze the most popular Android applications using free and open source forensic tools
Learn malware detection and analysis techniques to investigate mobile cybersecurity incidents

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Understand Android OS and architecture
Set up a forensics environment for Android analysis
Perform logical and physical data extractions
Learn to recover deleted data
Explore how to analyze application data
Identify malware on Android devices
Analyze Android malware

Who this book is for

If you are a forensic analyst or an information security professional wanting to develop your knowledge of Android forensics, then this is the book for you. Some basic knowledge of the Android mobile platform is expected.

Introducing Android Forensics
Setting up 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
Reverse engineering Android malware

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PDF ISBN: 978-1-78913-749-1

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2024

Language: English

Pages: 328

Related subjects:

Computer sciences,

IT-security and cryptology

Learning Android Forensics

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