Mobile phones have not only increased in number but also have become more sophisticated in terms of functionality. This statistic alone reflects the unprecedented growth of mobile devices. Gartner, a technology research and advisory firm, in their forecasts published in January 2018, estimated that mobile phone shipments in 2017 totaled 2.28 billion units and would increase to 2.32 billion in 2018. The world today is experiencing technological innovation like never before, and this growth is almost exponential in the field of mobile devices. In this chapter, we'll cover the following: It's important to have a clear understanding of the platform and other fundamentals before we dive in and find out how to extract data. Due to the open nature of the Android operating system, these forensic techniques and methods can apply to more than just mobile phones: refrigerators, vehicle entertainment units, televisions, watches, and many more devices run Android. Android forensics deals with extracting, recovering, and analyzing data present on an Android device through various techniques. Mobile forensics is a branch of digital forensics that is evolving in today's digital era and is constantly changing as new phones are released and operating systems are updated. In the concluding chapters, you will explore malware analysis so that you’ll be able to investigate cybersecurity incidents involving Android malware.īy the end of this book, you will have a complete understanding of the Android forensic process, you will have explored open source and commercial forensic tools, and will have basic skills of Android malware identification and analysis. You will also learn how to recover deleted data and forensically analyze application data with the help of various open source and commercial tools. As you make your way through the chapters, you will work through various physical and logical techniques to extract data from devices in order to obtain forensic evidence. You will understand how data is stored on Android devices and how to set up a digital forensic examination environment. Learning Android Forensics will introduce you to the most up-to-date Android platform and its architecture, and provide a high-level overview of what Android forensics entails. 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.
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