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Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition
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Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
10h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Practical filesystem acquisition with free tools

It's time to perform filesystem acquisition. All we'll need is iproxy from libimobiledevice:

  1. Open a Command Prompt window and run iproxy with the following parameters:
  1. Open another Command Prompt window, change the directory to the one you want your image to be stored in, and run the following command:
ssh root@127.0.0.1 -p 4444 "tar -cf - /private/var/" > userdata.tar
To connect via SSH, you will be prompted for the necessary password. The default password for SSH is alpine.

Once the process has finished, you'll find the created filesystem image in the directory you changed to before running ...

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ISBN: 9781838647520