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 browser history
Extracting browser history information is one task that is often required to be reconstructed by a forensic examiner. Apart from the default Android Browser, there are different browser applications that can be used on an Android phone, such as Firefox Mobile, Google Chrome, and so on. All of these browsers store their browser history in the SQLite .db format. For our example, we are extracting data from the default Android browser to our forensic workstation. This data is located at /data/data/com.android.browser. The file named browser2.db contains the browser history details. The following screenshot shows the browser data, as represented by Oxygen Forensic SQLite Viewer. Note that the trial version will hide ...