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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Extracting data without the use of commercial tools
On an unlocked device, it may be possible to run an app that can extract the user data present in the phone. This device may have to be jailbroken for this to work. Several apps that do this are available, and they depend on the version of Windows running on the phone and the version on your forensic PC. Two apps will be covered in this section. The first is TouchXperience and the second is Windows Phone app for Desktop.
The TouchXperience app, which comes with the Windows Mobile Device Manager (WMDM), can be used for this purpose. WPDM is the management software for Windows Phone 7. The TouchXperience client app extracts data, such as the filesystem, from the mobile device, and WPDM retrieves ...