Skulkin Oleg, Tindall Donnie, Tamma Rohit. Learning Android Forensics: Analyze Android devices with the latest forensic tools and techniques

2nd Edition. — Packt Publishing, 2019. — 324 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78913-101-7.A comprehensive guide to Android forensics, from setting up the workstation to analyzing key artifactsMany 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.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. You will understand how data is stored on Android devices and how to set up a digital forensic examination environment. 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 also learn how to recover deleted data and forensically analyze application data with the help of various open-source and commercial tools. In the concluding chapters, you will explore malware analysis so that you’ll be able to investigate cybersecurity incidents involving Android malware.By 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.What you will learnUnderstand Android OS and architecture
Set up a forensics environment for Android analysis
Perform logical and physical data extractions
Learn to recover deleted data
Explore how to analyze application data
Identify malware on Android devices
Analyze Android malware