Apple iPhone

The iPhone is a smartphone made by Apple Inc. and sold with service through AT&T. It can be used to send/receive email (see IPhone Mail Header Format), keep schedules, surf the web, and view videos from YouTube. A large number of forensic products can process iPhones, see Tools section.

In December 2009, Nicolas Seriot presented (PDF) a harvesting application, SpyPhone. This application grabs data as sensitive as location data and a cache of keyboard words. It neither requires jailbreaking nor makes Private API calls (which Apple's App Store does not allow in any application it distributes).

Tools

• [Cellebrite UFED http://www.cellebrite.com/forensic-solutions/ios-forensics.html]
• iphone Data Protection is a set of tools that can image and decrypt an iPhone. The tools can even brute-force the iPhone's 4-digit numerical password.
• Jonathan Zdziarski has released tools that will image iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch. (law enforcement only).
• libimobiledevice is a library with utilities for backing up iPhones. The output format is an iTunes-style backup that can be examined with traditional tools. They are available in the Debian-testing packages libimobiledevice and libimobiledevice-utils.
• Nuix Desktop and Proof Finder can detect and analyse many databases from iOS and iPhones and can directly ingest HFSX dd images.
• Oxygen Forensic Suite 2010

Publications

• Gómez-Miralles, Arnedo-Moreno. Versatile iPad forensic acquisition using the Apple Camera Connection Kit. Computers And Mathematics With Applications, Volume 63, Issue 2, 2012, pp.544-553.

External Links

• Official web site
• Wikipedia: iPhone
• Wikipedia: IOS jailbraking
• SpyPhone. Noted on Slashdot.
• iPhone Forensics, by Andrew Hoog, Katie Strzempka, in November 2012. Covers 13x iOS forensic tools and provides detailed information on the results for the iPhone 3G.