Data recovered from mobile chat apps is critical to many forensic investigations. However, with thousands of mobile chat apps in use today and a steady stream of new apps emerging, identifying, recovering and analyzing mobile chat data has become a challenging and time consuming duty for forensic professionals.
Often investigators will come across a less popular app, or even a custom app created by a suspect that isn’t supported by any tool, but will still require examination. Dynamic App Finder is a feature of the Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) Mobile Module that helps address this problem. DAF searches for any potential mobile chat app databases located on images or file dumps of iOS or Android mobile devices…
