A Simple Cost-Effective Framework for iPhone Forensic Analysis

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST

Publication Date

12-1-2011

Abstract

Apple iPhone has made significant impact on the society both as a handheld computing device and as a cellular phone. Due to the unique hardware system as well as storage structure, iPhone has already attracted the forensic community in digital investigation of the device. Currently available commercial products and methodologies for iPhone forensics are somewhat expensive, complex and often require additional hardware for analysis. Some products are not robust and often fail to extract optimal evidence without modifying the iPhone firmware which makes the analysis questionable in legal platforms. In this paper, we present a simple and inexpensive framework (iFF) for iPhone forensic analysis. Through experimental results using real device, we have shown the effectiveness of this framework in extracting digital evidence from an iPhone. © Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2011.

ISBN

9783642195129

ISSN

1867-8211

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Volume

53

First Page

27

Last Page

37

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Forensics, Iphone, Itunes, Jailbreaking, Smartphone

Scopus ID

84885879823

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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