You may surprise yourself when you are able to grab everything with the click of the “acquire evidence” button on your tool of choice. You don’t know how that device was used and what settings are already enabled behind that locked device. I always tell my students to try everything when you have a smartphone on your desk. Some of the ones I rely on to get my data are Cellebrite UFED (not for iOS devices), Cellebrite Physical Analyzer (for iOS devices), Oxygen, iTunes and my good ‘ole Mac. 🙂Īs I stated in the last blog I wrote on this topic, I am not going to delve too much into acquisition tools and methods. Is your tool missing from this list? Offer me a demo and I will try to find time to test it and give feedback. These tools are not perfect and they DO NOT have a “Find Evidence” button. To help you out, I am listing the tools that I prefer and my reasons why. You must know the tool strengths and be able to defeat the weaknesses.
These tools are picky and seem to like one device better than another and parsing is not the same across the board. One of the most common questions I am asked is “which tool is the best?” Guess what? There isn’t just one! And I strongly recommend you use more than one, especially for analysis and sometimes even for acquisition (read my blog on iOS 11 from Oct. By this I mean – how did it get there? Did the phone suggest it, the user searched for it or was it synced to the device? This level of analysis is something your tool cannot do for you, which is why you probably read blogs like this and learn what you can trust and where you must apply your smartphone skills. Your goal should be to determine how the artifacts were placed on the device, not that the artifact exists on the phone. For that reason, please test and validate your tools and never trust what is advertised.
SMARTPHONE DATA RECOVERY OPEN SOURCE UPDATE
Some tools update so quickly that they lose the basics.
Have they changed for the better? Not necessarily. I realize it’s been awhile and these tools have really changed since my last post in 2015.
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