Information Technology Reference
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iPhone Backup Browser
iPhone Data Protection Tools
iPhone Data Protection Tools, an open source iOS forensic toolkit, can also be used to ex-
tract the backup files. To analyze data from the unencrypted backup file, set up iPhone
Data Protection Tools as explained in
Chapter 3
,
Data Acquisition from iOS Devices
, and
run the
backup_tool.py
script on your backup directory in a terminal window, as fol-
lows:
$cd iphone-dataprotection
$cd python_scripts
$sudo python backup_tool.py ~/Library/Application\ Support/
MobileSync/Backup/6c1b7aca59e2eba6f4635cfe7c4b2de1bd812898/
Device Name : Satishb3
Display Name : Satishb3
Last Backup Date : 2014-01-07 12:58:13
IMEI : 012856001945212
Serial Number : 85137505EDG
Product Type : iPhone2,1
Product Version : 6.1
iTunes Version : 11.1.3
Extract backup to /Users/satishb3/Library/Application
Support/MobileSync/Backup/
6c1b7aca59e2eba6f4635cfe7c4b2de1bd812898_extract ? (y/n)
Type the letter
y
and hit
Enter
. The preceding script displays a number of messages indic-
ating the current file being operated on, as shown in the following command lines:
Backup is not encrypted
Writing /Users/satishb3/Library/Application Support/
