Physical Data Extraction from Android mobile using Apeaksoft Android toolkit and Android Debug Bridge

Abstract

Android plays a vital role in day-to-day life. Android acts like a mini brain in many human lives. Therefore, data stored in android is also very essential. Now a days it is mandatory to preserve the stored data or to extract the stored data and place it safely in any location. Data extraction plays a major role in mobile forensics also. Mobile forensics is a kind of digital forensics that deals with extracting, analyzing and generating reports. It extracts data such as WhatsApp, SMS, Call logs, MMS, images, videos, etc. that can be stored on devices. To extract data efficiently, many data extraction tools are available. In this paper, command line tool such as ADB (Android Debug Bridge) and fully automated tool, Aspeaksoft Android toolkit are taken into consideration for extracting data. Moreover, performance of both the tools for extracting physical data can also be compared.