android forensics Archives

Register for Webinar: When an Android Phone Is All You Have

25th November 2022

Pick the scenario. You have to prove or disprove something and your proof is in a phone. What to do? In this scenario, the phone is unlocked, and you must determine what methods of data extraction to employ. Will you… Read more

Oxygen Forensics Advances Brute Force, Decryption, and Analysis Capabilities in Latest Release

4th November 2022

Oxygen Forensics, a global leader in digital forensics for law enforcement, federal agencies, and enterprise clients, announced today the release of the latest version of the all-in-one digital forensic solution, Oxygen Forensic® Detective v.15.1. This version offers multiple advancements to… Read more

Huawei Devices: Decryption and Extraction in Oxygen Forensic Detective

20th April 2022

Physical extraction from Huawei devices on Kirin chipsets remains one of the most popular extraction methods in forensic solutions. Huawei produces smartphones based on this processor family, as well as under the Honor brand. Huawei models get all the new… Read more

New Release From MSAB: Recover Even More Digital Evidence From Apps With XRY 10.0.1

11th February 2022

Today’s release of XRY 10.0.1 offers improvements and added support to several popular applications on Android and iOS such as Viber, Tinder, Google Maps, Signal. This release comes with enhanced Snapchat Warrant Return support including improved handling of UTC, which… Read more

Chip Chop: Smashing the Mobile Phone Security Chip for Fun and Digital Forensics

8th February 2022

a locked smartphone screen side by side with padlocks connected by chains

Hello, and welcome to Chip Chop: Smashing the Mobile Phone Security Chip for Fun and Digital Forensics. My name is Gunnar Alendal and I am a PhD candidate at NTNU in Norway, and I am going to talk about one… Read more

Android File System Extraction With Oxygen Forensic Detective

17th November 2021

A screenshot of Oxygen Forensic Detective overlaid with video of an Android phone extraction process

Hey everyone, Keith Lockhart here from Oxygen Forensics Training. This video is a short look at the Android file system extractor. This option here in our Android extraction section of our forensic extractor for our devices. So, I’ve got the… Read more

LogExtractor: Extracting Digital Evidence From Android Log Messages Via String & Taint Analysis

16th October 20215th October 2021

Hi, thanks for showing me. This is Christian Chao, a PhD from Iowa State University. Today, I’m going to present LogExtractor. This is joint work with Chen Shi and my advisor is professor Neil Zhenqiang Gong and professor Yong Guan.… Read more

Android App Downgrade in Oxygen Forensic Detective

22nd September 2021

The Android ADB backup is one of the methods that is used to acquire evidence from unlocked Android devices. However, with this approach, investigators cannot extract applications of the latest version because their data is not included in the backup… Read more

Grayshift Accelerates Forensic Access And Extends GrayKey To LG Mobile Devices And MediaTek Chipsets

21st September 2021

Grayshift, LLC, a leading provider of mobile device digital forensics, specializing in lawful access and extraction, today announced the latest release of its flagship GrayKey solution, which now supports LG Android phones and introduces several new capabilities that accelerate access… Read more

Walkthrough: Analyze DI Face Detection Recognition

14th May 202021st September 2018

Let’s check out the new features of the Face Detection within Griffeye Analyze DI. Make sure in the Analyze Forensic Market you have the Face and Video utility pack both activated before you create your case. Once you do so,… Read more

An Introduction To Theft Of Trade Secrets Investigations

12th May 20205th June 2017

by Laurence D. Lieb, Managing Director, HaystackID. The subjects we will be covering include: Defining When One Should Reasonably Panic Reasonable Triage Steps to Take in Order to Identify if There is Only Smoke or an Actual Fire The Importance… Read more

Enfuse 2017 – Recap

19th May 20201st June 2017

by Mattia Epifani, Forensic Focus The Enfuse Conference, organized by Guidance Software, took place between 21st and 24th May at Caesar Palace Conference Center in Las Vegas. More than 1,500 attendees were present, coming from different fields like digital forensics,… Read more

Samsung sBrowser – Android Forensics: A Look Into The Cache Files

12th May 20206th February 2017

by Robert Craig and Michael Lambert Abstract Samsung devices are a large portion of the Android OS market. Samsung has its own Internet Browser, “sbrowser”, installed onto their devices. All web browsers leave artifacts from user activity. The “sbrowser” cache… Read more

Forensic Acquisition of Google Accounts

12th May 202031st December 2015

Google collects and retains massive amounts of data about everyone who uses their services. Gaining access to that data is essential for solving many types of crimes. Learning what Google knows about the suspect can be a matter of utter… Read more

The Future of Mobile Forensics: November 2015 Follow-Up

12th May 20204th November 2015

by Oleg Afonin, Danil Nikolaev, Yuri Gubanov Mobile forensics is a moving target. In our recent article, “The Future of Mobile Forensics”, we described acquisition techniques that used to be state-of-the art back then. Weeks later, some things had changed… Read more

Android Forensics

12th May 202012th September 2012

Smartphones are changing the IT and Communication landscape vastly. A Smartphone can do almost every good thing a computer can do. Today most of the corporate employee access and manage their official emails through the e-mail client installed on their… Read more