A General Forensics Acquisition for Android Smartphones with Qualcomm Processor
A General Forensics Acquisition for Android Smartphones with Qualcomm Processor Smartphones have become more integrated into every aspect of our lives. However, it also was witnessed that smartphones were increasing used in crimes [1]. Increasingly, mobile phones involved in crime actives often play an important digital evidence for criminal investigations. Because of the largest market share of Android, forensics on Android device always is a focus in the field of digital forensics. Data extraction is a key aspect for mobile device forensics, existing extraction solutions can be roughly divided into two categories, logical acquisition and physical acquisition. The logical extraction is to copy files from device storage through an ADB (Android Debug Bridge) connection. The logical extraction just copy the logical data of the storage partition, “unused space” will not be extracted, that results the deleted files to not be recovered. A physical image is a bit-by-bit copy o...
