Performance of Android Forensics Data Recovery Tools
This work addresses the problem of data recovery for forensic investigators, but it is incremental as it tests existing tools on a specific device.
The study evaluated the effectiveness of five forensic data recovery tools on a Samsung Galaxy S2 Android phone, finding that their recovery capacities varied and were only suitable in specialized contexts.
Recovering deleted or hidden data is among most important duties of forensics investigators. Extensive utilisation of smartphones as subject, objects or tools of crime made them an important part of residual forensics. This chapter investigates the effectiveness of mobile forensic data recovery tools in recovering evidences from a Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100 Android phone. We seek to determine the amount of data that could be recovered using Phone image carver, Access data FTK, Foremost, Diskdigger, and Recover My File forensic tools. The findings reflected the difference between recovery capacities of studied tools showing their suitability in their specialised contexts only.