Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
Safari bookmarks and cache
The Safari browser used on an Apple device allows users to bookmark their favorite websites. The bookmarks database is a HomeDomain file, and it can be found at /private/var/mobile/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.db. The Safari browser stores the recently downloaded and cached data in a database. The database is a HomeDomain file and can be found at /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobilesafari/Cache.db.
The file contains cached URLs and the web server's responses along with the timestamps. In addition to this, Safari stores information from various sites in the WebKit database that is located in the /private/var/mobile/Library/WebKit/LocalStorage/ directory. The directory contains unique databases for each ...
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