Discovering Insensitivity Running through the steps of an exercise during the Mobile Forensic Analysis course from Hexordia . I ran into an interesting sensitivity issue. For me, unsolved issue like this are not acceptable. I'm sure that if you are a forensicator like me, this same standard applies to you. Let's walk through my testing and the solution I discovered. The Problem with Insensitivity I was dealing with data from Apple File System from an iOS image in ZIP format. Although many tools can parse the ZIP file as is, others may require the file to be extracted. You may want to manually browser through the files and folders as well. When performing the ZIP extraction on a Windows computer, you are likely to run into a problem. This problem will cause you to miss possibly vital information. The problem I speak of is based on the File System's inability to handle case sensitivity. In the screenshot below, you will note that the extraction was attempting to put two file
Video Thumbnails ".lvl" Found on Android Devices Video files with the .lvl extension were located on an Android phone in the hidden “ .thumbnails ” folder. The Android device tested is a Samsung Galaxy SGH-M919. The device model number appears in the full path where the .lvl video thumbnails are stored. Root/media/0/.thumbnails/ M919 UVSFQA1_4.4.4/ movie_xx/section.0000.lvl A test to see what actions initiate the creation of the video thumbnails was conducted. Download Video Testing A Samsung Galaxy SGH-M919 was used for the test. The phone had been cleared and reset to factory defaults. I installed a video download app to obtain a video from the Internet and store them on the mobile device. The app Video Downloader was installed from the Google App Store. Using the Video Downloader browser, I accessed the Internet Archive movie library and downloaded “Night of the Living Dead”. It is October after all - Happy Halloween!! The video download complet