Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition

Elcomsoft Phone Breaker

Elcomsoft Phone Breaker is a GPU-accelerated commercial tool from Elcomsoft developed for the Windows platform. The tool can decrypt an encrypted backup file when the backup password is not available. The tool provides an option to launch a password brute-force attack on the encrypted backup if the backup password is not available. Elcomsoft Phone Breaker tries to recover the plain-text password that protects the encrypted backup using dictionary and brute-force attacks. Passwords that are relatively short and simple can be recovered in a reasonable time. But if the backup is protected with a strong and complex password, breaking it can take forever.

To brute-force the backup password, perform the following steps: ...