Learning Android Forensics

A hands-on guide to Android forensics, from setting up the forensic workstation to analyzing key forensic artifacts

About This Book

• A professional, step-by-step approach to forensic analysis complete with key strategies and techniques
• Analyze the most popular Android applications using free and open source tools
• Learn forensically-sound core data extraction and recovery techniques

Who This Book Is For

If you are a forensic analyst or an information security professional wanting to develop your knowledge of Android forensics, then this is the book for you. Some basic knowledge of the Android mobile platform is expected.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the Android system architecture and its significance for Android forensics
• Build a forensically sound workstation
• Utilize ADB to acquire data
• Bypass Android security such as PINs and passwords
• Perform both logical and full physical extractions to retrieve data
• Reverse-engineer applications  
• Analyze data from many popular applications including Gmail, WhatsApp, and Snapchat
• Discover free and open source tools to aid in data acquisition and analysis

In Detail

Many forensic examiners rely on commercial, push-button tools to retrieve and analyze data, even though there is no tool that does either of these jobs perfectly. This book will introduce you to the Android platform and its architecture, and provides a high-level overview of what Android  forensics entails. You will see how data is stored on Android devices and how to set up a digital forensic examination environment. Next, you will go through the various physical and logical techniques to extract data from devices to obtain forensic evidence. You will also learn how to reverse-engineer applications and forensically analyze the data with the help of various open source and commercial tools.

By the end of this book, you will have a complete understanding of the Android forensic process.

一本實用的Android取證指南，從建立取證工作站到分析關鍵取證證據。

關於本書：
- 提供專業的逐步取證分析方法，包括關鍵策略和技巧。
- 使用免費和開源工具分析最受歡迎的Android應用程式。
- 學習符合取證標準的核心數據提取和恢復技術。

本書適合對Android取證有興趣的取證分析師或資訊安全專業人士，需要具備基本的Android移動平台知識。

你將學到：
- 了解Android系統架構及其對Android取證的重要性。
- 建立符合取證標準的工作站。
- 使用ADB獲取數據。
- 繞過Android的安全措施，如PIN碼和密碼。
- 進行邏輯和完整物理提取以檢索數據。
- 進行應用程式逆向工程。
- 分析來自許多熱門應用程式的數據，包括Gmail、WhatsApp和Snapchat。
- 發現免費和開源工具，以協助數據獲取和分析。

本書詳細介紹了Android平台及其架構，並提供了Android取證的高級概述。你將了解Android設備上的數據存儲方式，以及如何建立數位取證環境。接下來，你將通過各種物理和邏輯技術從設備中提取數據，獲取取證證據。你還將學習如何使用各種開源和商業工具進行應用程式逆向工程和取證數據分析。

通過閱讀本書，你將完全了解Android取證過程。