What should forensic expert do in such situation? Let’s try to find out.ġ. Forensic laboratories and examining subdivisions can not afford to buy specialized software packages (.XRY (Micro Systemation), UFED (Cellebrite Forensics) etc.) because of the high cost. Criminals often delete files from memory of their mobile devices, trying to hide information about committed crime.ĥ. Now they are also interested in history of network resources (browsers’ data), history of the short messages exchange programs, deleted files (graphic files, videos, SQLite database, etc.) and other valuable criminalistics information.Ĥ. The time, when investigators were interested in the data from a phone book, calls, SMS messages that were extracted by forensic expert, has passed. So far, there is no forensic program supporting analysis of logs and data from all of such programs.ģ.
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There are a great number of programs designed for Android operating system, which data could potentially be interesting to investigators.
There is no forensic program that supports extracting data from all mobile devices existing in the world.Ģ. However, during examination of mobile devices running Android operating system (hereafter mobile devices) forensic expert face the following difficulties:ġ. It is no wonder that such devices are often received for forensic examination. Most of the mobile devices in the world run Android operating system. In this article, we are going to tell about opportunities of utilizing programs that are used on a day-to-day basis in computer forensics and examination for analysis of mobile devices running Android operating system.