January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
402 pages
10h 6m
English
book
Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
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Summary
This chapter covered various data analysis techniques and specified the locations for common artifacts within the iOS device's filesystem. When writing this chapter, we aimed to cover the most popular artifacts that tie into most investigations. Clearly, it is impossible to cover them all. We hope that once you learn how to extract data from SQLite and plist files, intuition and persistence will assist you in parsing the artifacts that were not covered.
Keep in mind that most open source and commercial tools are able to pull active and deleted data from common database files, such as contacts, calls, SMS, and more, but they often overlook the third-party application database files. Our best advice is to know how to recover the data ...