Case Study on Cellebrite UFED tool

Digital Forensic Case Study

Murder Case solved by Maharashtra Cyber Unit Using Cellebrite UFED

Mumbai,the most populous city of india. It’s hugness attracts not only bollywood, trade, business but also criminals.We will look into one such case solved by Maharashtra Cyber Unit using Cellebrite UFED®.

The Case

When a young woman failed to return home from work, her sister reported to the Maharashtra Police that her sister had gone missing. Police later recovered the body, which, according to the Hindustan Times, was discovered by pipeline workers. The 24-year-old victim was found hanging on a tree in an apparent attempt to make her death look like a suicide.

We will Explore this case by following following four phases developed by NIST.

Forensic Phases :

  1. collection

    • Case was complicated,during time of victim discovery,neither police nor any family member had suspicion on amyone. Their was no CCTV or eyewitness. Only one key evidence was victim’s phone

    • Thus to unlock victim’s mobile phone maharashtra cyber unit was called for assistence.

  2. Examination

    • Maharashtra cyber unit unlocked victim’s phone using Cellebrite UFED®

  3. Analysis

    • Once they get access to phone they revealed following information
      1. Identity of prime suspect
      2. intimate photos of the victim and her male lover
      3. call records of their conversion
      4. common location where the two had been together
      5. Areas they had visited together including last location ( the murder scene), which was revealed from GPS location data and images taken there.

  4. Reporting

    • Based on revovered data, police make an arrest. Police also investigated suspect’s phone and correlated GPS data,images,etc which confirms suspect’s involvment in murder

Conclusion:

“After analysis of his call records, images [on the phone], and the log data, the accused was prosecuted and convicted to more than seven years of jail time… And that evidence was extracted from the mobile devices using Cellebrite [solutions].”

References

Cellebrite report