Digital Forensics with Damien

In this new blog series, "The Realm Files", I’ll be digging into the physical structure of RealmDB. The goal is to give examiners a deeper understanding of how Realm actually works, so they can validate what their tools parse if supported and have a clear methodology to extract the data when the tool does not support it. Unlike other database formats such as SQLite or LevelDB, the file structure of RealmDB is not well documented in the public domain. While a few academic papers touch on specific applications that utilize Realm databases, and one mobile forensics book includes a chapter on the subject, there are still significant gaps. What is missing is detailed guidance on how to interpret the payload of an array and rebuild the database. This process is not as straightforward as it might first appear. Below is the link to the Realm Forensics Chapter in the Mobile Forensics - The File Format Handbook which has a great introduction to RealmDB  Realm Forensics Chapter:  Mobile...