Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
Logical extraction
Logical extraction involves connecting the mobile device to forensic hardware or to a forensic workstation via a USB cable, a RJ-45 cable, infrared, or Bluetooth. Once connected, the computer initiates a command and sends it to the device, which is then interpreted by the device processor. Next, the requested data is received from the device's memory and sent back to the forensic workstation. Later, the examiner can review the data. Most of the forensic tools currently available work at this level of the classification system. The extraction process is fast, easy to use, and requires little training for the examiners. On the flip side, the process may write data to the mobile and might change the integrity of the evidence. ...
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