{"id":772,"date":"2016-05-10T11:49:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T11:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalforensicscorp.com\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2024-12-11T19:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:20:05","slug":"decrypting-encrypted-itunes-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/software\/decrypting-encrypted-itunes-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Decrypting Encrypted iTunes Backups: A Digital Forensics Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays people\u00a0hold strong views about the importance of privacy in their everyday lives. <!--more-->This affects their digital data either. More and more often digital forensic examiners find encrypted during thier investigations. As you know, an iTunes backup can be encrypted with a password chosen by the device user. There are a few tools on the market, that can help an examiner to decrypt it. Today we are going to show you how to crack such password with one of them &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcomsoft.com\/eppb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elcomsoft Phone Breaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This tool is able to crack backup passwords of Apple devices of all generations released to date, including the iPhone 6S Plus and iOS 9.<\/p>\n<p>For demonstration purposes we created an encrypted backup of an iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1.2 using simple numeric password. Let&#8217;s try to crack it with EPB.<\/p>\n<p>Start from choosing the right source:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensicscorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1-EPB.png\" alt=\"1-EPB\" width=\"852\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1-EPB.png 852w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1-EPB-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1-EPB-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1-EPB-512x320.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In our case it&#8217;s iOS device backup. EPB will now automatically search for encrypted\u00a0backups in the user&#8217;s folder. And it has found our demo-backup:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensicscorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2-EPB.png\" alt=\"2-EPB\" width=\"692\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2-EPB.png 692w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2-EPB-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2-EPB-512x294.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, you can choose another encrypted backup if you created it by some third party forensic software. After selecting the backup you should choose the type of cracking:\u00a0Dictionary Attack or Brute-Force Attack:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensicscorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/3-EPB.png\" alt=\"3-EPB\" width=\"852\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/3-EPB.png 852w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/3-EPB-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/3-EPB-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/3-EPB-512x320.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As already been mentioned, for demonstration we used numeric password. What is more, we know, that it consists of just four numbers, so we can choose its lenght and character set in\u00a0Brute-Force Attack settings:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensicscorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/4-EPB.png\" alt=\"4-EPB\" width=\"852\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/4-EPB.png 852w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/4-EPB-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/4-EPB-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/4-EPB-512x320.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now just click &#8220;Start recovery&#8221; button. Due to the fact, that our backup password is extremely simple, we got it immediately:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensicscorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/5-EPB.png\" alt=\"5-EPB\" width=\"852\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/5-EPB.png 852w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/5-EPB-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/5-EPB-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/5-EPB-512x320.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now we know the backup password and are ready to parse it with our favorite mobile forensic suite. And we choose Oxygen Forensic. Let&#8217;s start from importing &#8211; choose &#8220;Import iTunes backup&#8230;&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensicscorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/6-EPB.png\" alt=\"6-EPB\" width=\"508\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/6-EPB.png 508w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/6-EPB-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After choosing your iTunes backup, you&#8217;ll see Oxygen Forensic Extractor dialog window. Don&#8217;t forget to fill in &#8220;Backup password&#8221; field:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensicscorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/7-EPB.png\" alt=\"7-EPB\" width=\"666\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/7-EPB.png 666w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/7-EPB-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/7-EPB-512x435.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now Oxygen Forensic has everything it needs to parse our backup, just click &#8220;Extract&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensicscorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/8-EPB.png\" alt=\"8-EPB\" width=\"666\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/8-EPB.png 666w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/8-EPB-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/8-EPB-512x435.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As soon as the extraction process is completed, you can analyse parsed data with ease and style:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensicscorp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9-EPB.png\" alt=\"9-EPB\" width=\"1193\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9-EPB.png 1193w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9-EPB-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9-EPB-768x227.png 768w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9-EPB-1024x302.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9-EPB-512x151.png 512w, https:\/\/www.digitalforensics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/9-EPB-920x271.png 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1193px) 100vw, 1193px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, there are some powerful tools like Elcomsoft Phone Breaker, that can help you to crack iTunes backup passwords. Of course, you can spend days and months trying to decrypt one if it&#8217;s complex enough, but according to most of our cases, people don&#8217;t tend to choose very complex passwords, so EPB is very useful for lots of mobile forensic examinations.<\/p>\n<h2>About the authors:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/igormikhaylovcf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Igor Mikhaylov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interests: Computer, Cell Phone &amp; Chip-Off Forensics<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/oleg-skulkin-96652a87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oleg Skulkin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interests: iOS forensics, Android forensics, Mac OS X forensics, Windows forensics, Linux forensics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nowadays people\u00a0hold strong views about the importance of privacy in their everyday 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