Even compressed containers such as zip and tar are supported as an image type. Files & Folders is a good option if the file format is not supported but AXIOM typically supports most file extensions you will see for the different image types.
This will let you load the images created by various tools, including Cellebrite.
Physical extractions are usually ideal when available and include the most data as it is stored on the physical chip.įile system extractions may include a full or partial file system extraction and while it’s not as complete as a physical image, it will contain a good amount of data that can be analyzed. Each tool may use slightly different terms, but these pretty accurately describe the type of data being returned. Logical, File System, and Physical ImagesĬellebrite uses these terms to determine the type of data that is returned to the examiner. UFD file structures the images, so they may need to be manually loaded. UFD files directly, but there may be situations where it doesn’t recognize the way the. The actual image files will be located nearby in various formats depending on the type of extraction and device. AXIOM has the ability to ingest and read. They can be opened with most text editors like Notepad. These files do not contain the image but they may contain valuable information such as extraction details and passwords if one was used to create the image. UFDX file contains metadata about all the extractions which allow the examiner to load them all into PA at once. Each extraction will have a corresponding. UFDX files are used when the examiner extracts several different image types of the same phone. However, these are configuration files that contain metadata about the image and the extraction performed by UFED, not the image itself. Typically, an examiner will use these to open the image in Physical Analyzer. UFDX files that are created by Cellebrite. Most Cellebrite users are used to seeing the. This is not meant to be a complete guide to using Cellebrite UFED or Physical Analyzer but simply as information to help examiners get the most out of the data they are able to extract. Luckily, Cellebrite doesn’t do anything proprietary to their image formats which is helpful for examiners wishing to use multiple tools to analyze or validate their findings.
Often, I will get questions on how to load Cellebrite images into Magnet AXIOM and while it’s quite easy, it’s not always straightforward. Because of this, you may get several different image types depending on the device and the type of extraction done. Cellebrite images are quite popular, as the tool supports many different devices and extraction types.