Preface

Mobile phone forensics is the science of retrieving data from a mobile phone under forensically sound conditions. This is the fourth edition of our successful Practical Mobile Forensics book that delves into the concepts of mobile forensics and its importance in today’s world.
This book focuses on teaching you the latest forensic techniques in the investigation of mobile devices across various mobile platforms. You will learn forensic techniques on multiple OS versions, including iOS 12, iOS 13, Android 9, Android 10, and Windows 10. You will delve into the latest open source and commercial mobile forensic tools, enabling you to analyze and retrieve data effectively. You will learn how to inspect the device, retrieve data from the cloud, and successfully document reports of your investigations. You will explore reverse engineering of applications and ways to identify malware. You will also come across parsing popular third-party applications such as Facebook and WhatsApp.

By the end of this book, you will have mastered various mobile forensic techniques to analyze and extract data from mobile devices with the help of open source solutions.