Chapter 15

Mobile cloud forensics

An analysis of seven popular Android apps

Ben Martini; Quang Do; Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo    Information Assurance Research Group, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Abstract

Using the evidence collection and analysis methodology for Android devices proposed by Martini et al. (2015), we examined and analyzed seven popular Android cloud-based apps. First, we analyzed each app in order to see what information could be obtained from their private app storage and SD card directories. We collated the information and used it to aid our investigation of each app’s database files and AccountManager data. To complete our understanding of the ...

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