I've come across something weird with an iphone 7 extraction. Using UFED PA 6.3.12.34, I acquired an advanced logical download of an iPhone 7, A1778, MDL MN8X2, iOS ver 11.0.1.

The download went as normal and all looked good until I started looking closer at the data. For some reasons the SMS, MMS and Chats are all showing the same date/time stamp 19/01/2069 1347 hrs.

All other files (call logs etc) are reporting correct normal timestamps, this is only occuring with the message data. There are no whatsapp or any third party messaging apps so I can't compare that to see if this is iOS related.

The phone itself had the correct time/date at time of examination and was not connected to any network (flight mode).

I'm going to attempt another look at the phone to see if this was a one off glitch, but was wondering if anyone else has seen this before or has any idea what's going on.  

Open the extraction again in UFED 6.4 and it is solved there.

RonS  

Thanks Ron will do.  

Oops, forgot about that old account

Thanks Ron  

- RonS

Open the extraction again in UFED 6.4 and it is solved there.

Looks like it may be the "SMS, iMessages and MMS records are missing the UTC value for devices running iOS 11.0.1." issue mentioned as fixed in the 6.4 release notes, or something very closely related.  

If you want more detail, Heather did a great blog post on the iOS 11 timestamps here:
smarterforensics.com/2...in-ios-11/

Jamie  

- mcman

If you want more detail, ...

Perfect -- thanks!