Elcomsoft Phone Viewer

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer

Explore the content of local and cloud backups produced by iOS, BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 10 Mobile devices! Elcomsoft Phone Viewer is a small, lightweight tool enabling read-only access to contacts, messages, call logs, notes and calendar data located in mobile backups. In addition, the tool displays essential information about the device such as model name, serial number, date of last backup etc. Finally, the tool implements access to deleted SMS and iMessages stored in iOS backups.

A Perfect Viewing Companion

Yet another “me too” forensic viewer? We looked hard for a tool we could recommend to our customers for viewing data decrypted or downloaded with Elcomsoft Phone Breaker. No single tool on the market meets our stringent requirements on speed, compatibility and ease of use. That’s why we introduced a viewing tool of our own.

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer is an ideal viewing companion for Elcomsoft Phone Breaker, enabling full support for all data formats produced by this tool. Regularly maintained and timely updated, Elcomsoft Phone Viewer is the first to receive support for the latest mobile backup formats extracted, downloaded or decrypted with other ElcomSoft tools. Using our mobile acquisition tools? Elcomsoft Phone Viewer is a perfect companion!

Note that Elcomsoft Phone Viewer can only open unencrypted backups as well as iTunes backups with a known password. Should you have a backup file encrypted with an unknown password, use Elcomsoft Phone Breaker to recover the password.

Analyzes Online Activities

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer displays the user's online activities including Web browsing history and search queries, browser bookmarks and opened tabs including page snapshots. Information about recent search queries and last visited Web sites already helped solve multiple cases, and will undoubtedly help investigating crime.

Multimedia Gallery

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer can display pictures and videos captured with the phone or saved by one of the many apps. But don’t you worry, there won’t be a big mess of thousands of images appearing in a single thumbnail gallery. The files will be automatically split into a number of categories, making it easy to discover which pictures were captured with the phone’s camera, or received as messages or attachments. A separate category filters out system and application images such as buttons, logos and splash screens. Album view is available to allow you better navigate through thousands of images.

iCloud Photo Library

Since version 2.30, Elcomsoft Phone Viewer can display iCloud Photo Library images extracted by Elcomsoft Phone Breaker. Automatic grouping by albums and advanced filtering are supported.

Access to Synced Data

Information such as call logs, contacts, notes, calendars as well as Web browsing activities including Safari history and open tabs can be synced with Apple servers. Unlike iCloud backups that may or may not be created on daily basis, synced information is pushed to Apple servers just minutes after the corresponding activity has taken place. Once uploaded, synced data can be retained for months with is no option for the end user to clear the data or disable the syncing.

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer is ElcomSoft's stock tool for viewing synced data extracted from Apple iCloud with Elcomsoft Phone Breaker.

EXIF Support

Access EXIF information stored in the images with ease. Elcomsoft Phone Viewer displays when, where and in which lighting conditions the image was captured. Detailed camera info allows determining whether an image was captured on this device or received from another one. Looking for images captured around the time of an incident? Just specify a data range, and Elcomsoft Phone Viewer will automatically display images captured during that period based on the images’ EXIF tags.

Automatic Location Mapping

Location information is one of the most important EXIF tags available. Elcomsoft Phone Viewer will automatically map the location where the image was taken using Google Maps. The ability to map GPS coordinates extracted from images’ EXIF metadata can become extremely handy during investigations, allowing to discover exactly when and where a particular image was captured.

Fast Cloud Explorer

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer is the perfect tool for exploring information contained in online backups downloaded from the cloud, while Elcomsoft Phone Breaker is the perfect tool for downloading mobile backups from iCloud (iOS devices), and Windows Live! (devices running Windows Phone 8/8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile).

Use Elcomsoft Phone Breaker to quickly download selective information from Apple iCloud, and review information you acquired in Elcomsoft Phone Viewer. The two tools enable investigators obtain essential information about the suspect such as their calls, messages, address books and location history in a matter of minutes.

Tiny. Fast. Handy.

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer is a perfect tool when time is the ultimate priority. By using Elcomsoft Phone Viewer together with other ElcomSoft tools such as Elcomsoft Phone Breaker, investigators can save time by reviewing essential bits of information in just a few moments. By quickly download selective information from Apple iCloud with Elcomsoft Phone Breaker and viewing acquired information in Elcomsoft Phone Viewer, investigators can obtain essential information about the suspect such as their calls, messages, address books and location history in a matter of minutes. The ability to view Calls and Messages databases with many thousand entries as well as convenient full-text and category-based searching and filtering make navigating through acquired information a snap.

Convenient Searching and Filtering

Search through thousands records in a snap! Elcomsoft Phone Viewer offers real-time filtering and full-text searching, allowing examiners locate records of interest in a matter of seconds. Search through Contacts, Calls, Notes and Messages, look up contact by names, numbers and other available fields, and locate messages with full-text search.

With real-time filtering, you can opt to only display favorite contacts or only display contacts from one or more accounts (Exchange, iCloud, Google, Facebook, or any combination). For messages, you can specify date range, type of message (SMS, MMS, iMessage) and whether to display incoming, outgoing or all messages.

Viewing Mobile Backups

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer is a fast, compact tool that requires no learning curve. Using Elcomsoft Phone Viewer is just as easy as viewing an Excel spreadsheet. Designed to simplify the entry into mobile forensics, Elcomsoft Phone Viewer offers more than enough features for many IT security departments, offices and one-off investigations.

Features

Windows and OS X (macOS) versions

Support for iOS 6 to iOS 10 backups (local and cloud-based)

Support for partial (selective) cloud backups for all iOS versions

Stand-alone support for password-protected iOS backups (password must be known)

Multimedia Gallery with albums supporting pictures and videos with file name, size, date and time, EXIF metadata and geolocation information

Export support for selected (checked), filtered, all or individual images and videos

Location data automatically mapped via Google Maps

Automatic categorization by the source(Camera Roll, Message Attachments and Other media)

System and application graphics (icons, logos etc.) automatically placed out of the way into the Other media category

Date range filtering for photos and videos

Support for iCloud Photo Library

Supported Data Types

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer enables access to the following information:

System Data

Device model name

Device serial number

Date/time of backup

Other essential information (for iOS devices: IMEI, device IDs, phone number, iOS version)

User Data

Contacts (aggregated, i.e. including ones synced with Facebook, Gmail etc.)

Messages (including deleted SMS and iMessages in iOS backups)

Notes (for Windows Phone, in Microsoft OneNote format)

Call Logs (incl. FaceTime)[1]

Calendar (for all accounts, from local to Microsoft Exchange and iCloud)[1]

Search queries, browsing history, bookmarks and open tabs with page snapshots [1]

Images and videos with album support

Photos from iCloud Photo Library

Synced data from iCloud such as call logs, Safari tabs and bworsing history, calendars, notes etc.

For iOS device backups, Elcomsoft Phone Viewer can work with ones in the original iTunes format, and supports backups with converted/restored file names. Partial backups (select categories downloaded from iCloud) are also supported.

Supported Devices

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer supports information saved to local or cloud backups by all of the following devices:

Apple iOS 6.x to 10.x (iTunes and iCloud backups):

iPhone (all models from iPhone 3GS up to iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus)

iPad (all models including from original iPad to iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro)

iPod Touch (starting from 4th generation)

BlackBerry 10

BlackBerry 10 backups created with BlackBerry Link and decrypted with Elcomsoft Phone Breaker (password for BlackBerry ID is required)

Windows Phone 8/8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile

Windows Live backups downloaded with Elcomsoft Phone Breaker

System Requirements

Elcomsoft Phone Viewer for Windows runs in 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, as well as Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 Server; Mac version requires OS X from 10.8 (Lion) to macOS 10.12 (Sierra). Elcomsoft Phone Viewer operates without Apple iTunes or BlackBerry Desktop Software being installed.