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This report concerns the theoretical and practical issues with automatically populating mobile devices with reference test data for use as reference materials in validation of forensic tools.
It describes an application and data set developed to populate identity modules and highlights subtleties involved in the process. Intriguing results attained by recent versions of commonly-used forensic tools when used to recover the populated data are also discussed. The results indicate that reference materials can be used to identify a variety of inaccuracies that exist in present-day forensic tools.
The Paper can be downloaded in PDF format from here:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistir/ir7617/nistir-7617.pdf
More on the paper here:
http://www.testandmeasurement.com/article.mvc/NIST-Develops-Experimental-Validation-Tool-0001?VNETCOOKIE=NO
The tool itself can be downloaded from here:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/mobile_security/mobile_forensics_software.html
The tool is called SIMfill, and it’s a java application that populates Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) with reference data and can be used to assess the data recovery capabilities of forensic SIM tools. The package includes an initial set of reference data for use with SIMfill, the source and compiled code, a readme file, a user’s guide, and a video demonstration. It can be downloaded free from:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/mobile_security/mobile_forensics_software.html
The research team, which included Edith Cowan University of Australia and BT, revealed some early results yesterday in news reports by the BBC and British television affiliates.
To read more about the research go here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8036324.stm
and here:
http://www.darkreading.com/security/storage/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217400054&cid=nl_DR_DAILY_H
Learn more here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7991777.stm
