MIAT : Mobile Internal Acquisition Tool

Mobile Internal Acquisition Tool (MIAT) is a Mobile Forensics Open Source software tool designed to acquire internal memory data without using any external hardware.

MIAT is a software application, layering on the Operating System APIs in order to gain a read-only access to the internal memory File System (FS).
During its execution, MIAT acquires the FS (sms, contacts, files etc) to a removable memory card; at the end of the execution, a logical image of mobile equipment FS is stored into the chosen removable storage volume.

The following picture shows the classic remote paradigm workflow.

The following picture shows the new local paradigm workflow, which is allowed by the MIAT.