Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

Data acquisition

Acquiring data from a Windows Phone is challenging for forensic examiners, as the physical, filesystem, and logical methods that were defined in previous chapters are not greatly supported. In addition to this, the phone may need to be at a specific battery charge state (%) in order for the commercial tool to recognize and acquire the device. This is often one of the most difficult steps in acquiring Windows Phones.

One of the most common techniques that's implemented by commercial tools attempting data acquisition is to install an application or agent on the device, which enables two-way communication for commands to be sent to the device in order to extract data. This could result in certain changes on the device; nevertheless, ...