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The UFED (Universal Forensics Extraction Device) is a product series of the Israeli company Cellebrite, which is used for the extraction and analysis of data from mobile devices by law enforcement agencies.[1]

Products

Cellebrite sells various products in the UFED series:[2]

  • UFED Physical Analyzer
  • UFED Logical Analyzer
  • UFED Phone Detective
  • UFED Cloud Analyzer

Features

On the UFED Touch, it is possible to select extraction of data and choose from a wide list of vendors. After the data extraction is done, it is possible to analyze the data in the Physicial Analyzer application.[3]

The Cellebrite UFED Physical Analyzer supports the following features:[3]

  • Extract device keys which can be used to decrypt raw disk images, as well as keychain items.
  • Revealing device passwords, although this is not available for all locked devices
  • Passcode recovery attacks
  • Analysis and decoding of application data
  • Generating reports in various formats such as PDF and HTML
  • Dump the raw filesystem for analyzing it in other applications

Resale

Cellebrite does not allow the resale of their products. The original list price of the product is around 6000 USD, but they have been sold on eBay for around 100 USD. Some devices that were resold still contained data about criminal investigations.[4]

References

  1. ^ July 2021, Joel Khalili 31 (2021-07-31). "Cellebrite: The mysterious phone-cracking company that insists it has nothing to hide". TechRadar. Retrieved 2021-09-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Information Technology -- New Generations: 15th International Conference on Information Technology. Shahram Latifi. Cham, Switzerland. 2018. p. 82. ISBN 978-3-319-77028-4. OCLC 1031400154.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ a b Bommisetty, Satish (2014). Practical mobile forensics: dive into mobile forensics on iOS, Android, Windows, and BlackBerry devices with this action-packed, practical guide. Rohit Tamma, Heather Mahalik. Birmingham, UK: Packt Pub. ISBN 978-1-78328-832-8. OCLC 888036062.
  4. ^ Swearingen, Jake (2019-02-28). "Cops' Favorite Phone Hacking Tool Is Being Sold on eBay". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2021-09-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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