Windows Phone 8 Forensic Artifacts

Due to the fast pace of progression of mobile device technology, a need often arises for forensic examination of mobile devices that are not yet supported for data extraction and parsing by commercially available mobile forensic tools. This is particularly the case with less commercially popular and therefore less supported mobile operating systems including Windows Phone 8. Through real life case study examples and the experiences of law enforcement practitioners, this paper explores the challenges that practitioners have faced with Window Phone 8 devices, the practical solutions to those challenges, and presents from practitioner experience, useful artifact locations from Windows Phone 8 devices.