With the release of UFED 4.5, Cellebrite announces support for 18,290 device profiles and 1,270 app versions. The recent release brings industry first access to 11 additional Motorola Android devices, logical extraction via Bluetooth from any Android, and enhanced decoding support for the latest versions of all UFED supported applications running on iOS and Android devices.Logical extraction via Bluetooth
Version 4.5 introduces a quicker and more efficient workflow, providing users with the option to perform a logical extraction via Bluetooth from any Android device. Extracting via Bluetooth is an effective solution to recover data from devices with damaged USB ports, as well as from prepaid devices (such as TracFone Android), which come with locked USB ports.
Physical ADB method for rooted Android devices
Physical ADB method is now available for pre-rooted Android devices, when the physical extraction method is not supported. Using the ADB method, users can now perform physical extraction from rooted Android devices. A few notes regarding rooted devices and ADB…
What is rooting? To “root” a device means to gain administrative rights on the file system on Android operated devices. A device can be rooted as part of recovery partition or fully rooted following rooting process.
What is ADB and how does it work? ADB, or Android Debugging Bridge, is a built-in protocol within the Android operating system. This protocol enables developers to connect to an Android-based device and perform low-level commands used for development. In UFED, the protocol to perform an extraction of Android Devices.
Updated app support
Following recent news regarding ISIS terrorists using the Telegram app to carry out their activities, version 4.5 keeps pace with industry demands by providing enhanced decoding support for Telegram’s latest version running on iOS and Android devices. Updated support is also available for 134 Android and 43 iOS app versions.
Improved Functionality for UFED Physical Analyzer and UFED Logical Analyzer
Version 4.5 also introduces improvements for the ruggedized frontline tool, UFED InField Kiosk, enabling users to encrypt mobile forensic reports and UFDR files using a password. Users can open encrypted reports using the password, view the reports with UFED Physical Analyzer and UFED Logical Analyzer. Password-protected reports can also easily be shared with other other investigators over a network using UFED Reader.
Additional enhancements include new offline map packages for the following regions: Minsk, India, Germany, Australia and New Zealand, Scandinavia. (The Offline maps feature was introduced in version 4.2. This feature enables you to view extracted locations on a worldwide map without internet connection).
Learn more about UFED 4.5 – download the release notes here!
