Analyzing the Windows SRUM Database
August 15th, 2025 by Oleg Afonin
When it comes to Windows forensics, some of the most valuable evidence can be stored deep inside system directories the average user never touches. One such source of evidence is the System Resource Usage Monitor (SRUM) database. Introduced in Windows 8 and still shipping today with the latest Windows 11 updates, SRUM collects detailed historical records about application usage and network activity. This database is a perfect source of data for reconstructing the user’s activities during an investigation. In this article, we’ll review the available types of data and demonstrate a way to access the SRUM database by using a bootable tool.
Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery Updated with OS X Keychain Support and Enhanced GPU Acceleration
November 26th, 2015 by Vladimir Katalov
We’ve recently updated Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, adding enhanced GPU-assisted recovery for many supported formats. In a word, the new release adds GPU-accelerated recovery for OS X keychain, triples BitLocker recovery speeds, improves W-Fi password recovery and enhances GPU acceleration support for Internet Key Exchange (IKE).
A New Tool for WhatsApp Acquisition
November 25th, 2015 by Vladimir Katalov
We have recently released a brand new product, Elcomsoft Explorer for WhatsApp. Targeted at home users and forensic experts along, this Windows-based, iOS-centric tool offers a bunch of extraction options for WhatsApp databases. Why the new tool, and how is it different from other extraction options offered by Elsomsoft’s mobile forensic tools? Before we move on to that, let’s have a look at the current state of WhatsApp.
Physical Acquisition for 64-bit Devices, iOS 9 Support
November 18th, 2015 by Vladimir Katalov
Big news! iOS Forensic Toolkit receives its first major update. And it’s a big one. Not only does version 2.0 bring support for iOS 9 handys. We also expanded acquisition support for jailbroken devices, enabling limited data extraction from jailbroken devices locked with an unknown passcode.
Extracting Data from Locked iPhones
November 13th, 2015 by Vladimir Katalov
With hardware-backed full-disk encryption and additional protection of sensitive user data located in the keychain, Apple iOS is the most secure mobile operating system out there. Acquisition approaches that are traditional for Android and Windows Phone devices (namely, JTAG, ISP and chip-off) are completely meaningless for iOS devices running even years-old generations of the system. Bypassing screen lock password (passcode) has also been long considered to be useless due to the fact user data stored in the keychain is additionally encrypted with a secure key based on the passcode.
Elcomsoft Phone Viewer: iOS 9, Media Gallery and Location Tracking
November 11th, 2015 by Vladimir Katalov
We’ve just released the first major update to Elcomsoft Phone Viewer, our lightweight forensic tool for glancing over data extracted from mobile devices. Boosting version number to 2.0, we added quite a lot of things, making it a highly recommended update.
Overcoming iOS 9 Security in Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 5.0
October 29th, 2015 by Vladimir Katalov
If you follow industry news, you already know about the release of iOS 9. You may also know that iOS 9 is the toughest one to break, with no jailbreak available now or in foreseeable future. With no jailbreak and no physical acquisition available for newer devices, what methods can you still use to obtain evidence from passcode-locked devices? Our answer to this is Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 5.0 that adds over-the-air acquisition support for iOS 9.
Digging Mac OS Keychains
September 16th, 2015 by Vladimir Katalov
We have just released a brand new tool, and this time it’s not about mobile forensics. Or is it?
BlackBerry Password Keeper Escrow Key: Have We Just Found a Hidden Backdoor?
August 11th, 2015 by Vladimir Katalov
As you may already know from the official press release, we’ve recently updated Elcomsoft Phone Breaker to version 4.10. From that release, you could learn that the updated version of the tool targets passwords managers, adding the ability to instantly decrypt passwords stored in BlackBerry Password Keeper for BlackBerry 10 and attack 1Password containers.
Video Tutorial on Decryption of Windows EFS-encrypted Data
July 6th, 2015 by Olga Koksharova
Although we’ve already embraced the EFS-encryption/decryption in some of our white papers and case studies, now we’d like to share a video tutorial because seeing once is better than hearing reading twice. So, in this video you will see how to decrypt EFS-encrypted data with help of Advanced EFS Data Recovery and how to recover Windows user account password with Proactive System Password Recovery (because it’s still obligatory for this type of encryption).
Why Do We Need Physical Acquisition?
June 25th, 2015 by Vladimir Katalov
With all the trouble of jailbreaking iOS 8 devices and the lack of support for 64-bit hardware, does iOS physical acquisition still present meaningful benefits to the investigator? Is it still worth your time and effort attempting to acquire that iPhone via a Lightning cord?
