Android Forensics - HackTricks

# Android Forensics

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## Locked Device

To start extracting data from an Android device it has to be unlocked. If it's locked you can:

- Check if the device has debugging via USB activated.
- Check for a possible smudge attack
- Try with Brute-force

## Data Adquisition

Create an android backup using adb and extract it using Android Backup Extractor: `java -jar abe.jar unpack file.backup file.tar`

### If root access or physical connection to JTAG interface

- `cat /proc/partitions` (search the path to the flash memory, generally the first entry is mmcblk0 and corresponds to the whole flash memory).
- `df /data` (Discover the block size of the system).
- dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/blk0.img bs=4096 (execute it with the information gathered from the block size).

### Memory

Use Linux Memory Extractor (LiME) to extract the RAM information. It's a kernel extension that should be loaded via adb.

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