April 2015
Beginner to intermediate
322 pages
7h 11m
English
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 the latest release (version 3) is a standalone tool built for Windows. Autopsy can be downloaded at http://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/.
Autopsy is not intended to perform acquisitions of mobile devices, but can analyze the most common Android filesystems (such as YAFFS and ext). For this example, we will load a full physical image obtained via dd from an HTC Droid DNA, as outlined in Chapter 5, Extracting Data Physically from Android Devices.
On opening Autopsy, the user will be prompted to choose Create New Case, Open Recent Case ...