Investigation of using Android Phones and Open source tools for Forensic Applications

Abstract

In recent years, the Android operating system installed on many smartphones, tablets and other devices has taken the market by storm. After this success, the need to recover and analyze data from the Android operating system became an important part of mobile forensics. As a result, many commercial and open source mobile forensic tools have become available to forensic investigators. The theme of this white paper is to introduce free, open-source tools and explain how to forensically recover data from Android-based devices</p