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In 2021, Moxie Marlinspike, creator of the encrypted messaging app Signal, released a blog post on the app's website detailing a number of vulnerabilities in Cellebrite's UFED and Physical Analyzer software that allowed for arbitrary code execution on Windows computers running the software. One exploit he detailed involved the UFED scanning a. Apr 15, 2021 UFED Physical Analyzer is an advanced analysis, decoding and reporting application in the mobile forensic industry. It includes malware detection, enhanced decoding and reporting functions, project analytics, timeline graph, exporting data capabilities and much more. See full list on signal.org.

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Cellebrite is an Israelidigital forensics company that provides tools for collection, analysis, and management of digital data. The company is a subsidiary of the Japanese electronics company Sun Corporation.

Overview[edit]

Cellebrite is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel. Its two subsidiary companies, Cellebrite USA Corp. and Cellebrite GmbH are respectively based in Parsippany, New Jersey, US, and Munich, Germany. Cellebrite is a fully owned subsidiary of Sun Corporation (JASDAQ: 6736) based in Nagoya, Japan.

In 2017, Cellebrite's Mobile Lifecycle division was rebranded as Mobilogy.^[1]

Mobilogy produces hardware and software for phone-to-phone data transfer, backup, mobile applications electronic software distribution, and data analysis tools. Mobilogy products are used by various mobile operators, and are deployed in wireless retail points of sale. Mobilogy works with handset manufacturers to ensure compatibility^{[clarification needed]} before devices are released to the public.^[2]

Cellebrite's mobile forensics division was established in 2007 and produces digital forensics and intelligence tools for use by law enforcement, intelligence agencies, military branches, corporate security and investigations, law firms; and private digital forensic examiners.^[2]

History[edit]

Cellebrite was established in Israel in 1999 by Avi Yablonka, Yaron Baratz, and Yuval Aflalo.^{[citation needed]} Cellebrite first manufactured hardware and software that offered a compressive phone-to-phone data transfer devices, contact synchronization and content transfer tools for mobile phones, intended for use by wireless carrier sales and support staff in retail stores.

Initially, Cellebrite's commercial products were used as a tool for migration from IS-95 (CDMA) enabled mobile phones to the GSM standard. Later, Cellebrite Wireless Carriers & Retailers' Universal Memory Exchanger (UME) gained additional data extraction and transfer capabilities, as well as additional mobile phone diagnostics, backup, and application management and delivery.^{[citation needed]}

In 2007, Cellebrite established an independent division targeted at the mobile forensics industry. The division first introduced mobile forensics products, under the family brand name 'Universal Forensic Extraction Device' (UFED), which have the ability to extract both physical and logical data from mobile devices, including the ability to recover deleted data and decipher encrypted and password protected information.^{[citation needed]}

Also in 2007, Cellebrite was acquired by FutureDial Incorporated and one of its major shareholders, Sun Corporation in Japan.^[3] Today^{[as of?]} Sun Corporation is Cellebrite's largest shareholder. In 2019 Israeli Growth Partners (IGP) invested $110 million in Cellebrite.^[4]

In 2020, Cellebrite acquired BlackBag Technologies, a forensics company with a focus on computer forensics. The acquisition allowed Cellebrite to expand its digital intelligence solution offerings to include data collection tools from computers.^[5]

In 2021, Cellebrite announced that they entered into a definitive business combination agreement and plan of merger with TWC Tech Holdings II Corporation. Once completed, Cellebrite will become a publicly listed company on the Nasdaq under the new ticker symbol, “CLBT”; the pro forma implied equity value of Cellebrite post-merger is expected to be approximately $2.4 billion.^[6]

Law enforcement assistance[edit]

In April 2011, the Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union questioned whether Michigan State Police (MSP) troopers were using Cellebrite UFEDs to conduct unlawful searches of citizens' cell phones.^[7] Following its refusal to grant the ACLU of Michigan's 2008 Freedom of Information Act request unless the organization paid $544,000 to retrieve the reports, MSP issued a statement claiming that it honored the Fourth Amendment in searching mobile devices.^[8]

In March 2016, it was reported that Cellebrite offered to unlock an iPhone involved in the FBI–Apple encryption dispute.^[9] Later, after the FBI announced it had successfully accessed the iPhone thanks to a third party. A press report claimed Cellebrite had assisted with unlocking the device,^[10] which an FBI source denied.^[11]

A 2017 data dump suggests Cellebrite sold its data extraction products to Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.^[12]

On 16 September 2020, Haaretz reported how Cellebrite had provided Saudi Arabia with mobile phone hacking services. The staff at Cellebrite demanded the Saudis to send a government representative to meet one of their employees at the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. Following the demand, a representative of Cellebrite traveled to Riyadh in November 2019 for an hacking attempt on a phone in the possession of a Saudi Justice Ministry employee. The Cellebrite representative called for the authorities to let him pass through passport control without getting his passport stamped or his electronic equipment being checked, while remaining only under his possession. The hacker was supposed to head to an isolated hotel room from the airport, where the process was planned to be executed without any electronic surveillance. The Cellebrite representative then returned to the Riyadh airport to fly back to London.^[13]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement[edit]

In 2017, Cellebrite entered into a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for $2.2 Million.^[14] On June 24, 2019, another contract was signed with ICE for between $30 and $35 million. The 2019 contract was for “universal forensic extraction devices (UFED), accessories licenses, training and support services” for one year, with an option to extend for up to five years.^[15][16]

Hong Kong[edit]

In August 2020, MIT Technology Review reported that Cellebrite sold its services to the Hong Kong Police Force for use in unlocking phones of detained demonstrators during the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.^[17] As of October 7, 2020, the company announced that it would stop selling its solutions and services to customers in Hong Kong and China as a result of a change in U.S. regulations.^[18]

Eastern Europe[edit]

Cellebrite's UFED program was used to persecution of opposition in Belarus and Russia. In March 2021 after finding out that technology was used in the Lyubov Sobol affair Jerusalem activist has filed a lawsuit against the company in the Israeli Supreme Court. Shortly after the company announced the terminaton of partnership with Russia.^[19]

Security breaches[edit]

On 12 January 2017, it was reported that an unknown hacker had acquired 900 GB worth of confidential data from Cellebrite's external servers. The data dump includes alleged usernames and passwords for logging into Cellebrite databases connected to the company's my.cellebrite domain, and also contains what appear to be evidence files from seized mobile phones, and logs from Cellebrite devices.^[20] The dumped data suggested Cellebrite sold its data extraction products to countries such as Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.^[12]

Vulnerability report by Signal[edit]

In 2021, Moxie Marlinspike, creator of the encrypted messaging app Signal, released a blog post on the app's website detailing a number of vulnerabilities in Cellebrite's UFED and Physical Analyzer software that allowed for arbitrary code execution on Windows computers running the software. One exploit he detailed involved the UFED scanning a specially formatted file which could then be used to execute arbitrary code on the computer running the UFED. Marlinspike wrote that the code could then '[modify] not just the Cellebrite report being created in that scan, but also all previous and future generated Cellebrite reports from all previously scanned devices and all future scanned devices in any arbitrary way'.^[21] Marlinspike also found that Cellebrite software was bundled with out-of-date FFmpegDLL files from 2012, which lacked over 100 subsequent security updates. Windows Installer packages, extracted from the Windows installer for iTunes and signed by Apple, were also found, which he said raised legal concerns.^[22] Cellebrite issued a statement in response, saying the company 'is committed to protecting the integrity of our customers’ data, and we continually audit and update our software in order to equip our customers with the best digital intelligence solutions available.'^[23] The report by Signal followed an announcement by Cellebrite in 2020 that it had developed technology to crack encrypted messages in the Signal app, a claim the company later retracted and downplayed.^[24][25]

The announcement by Marlinspike prompted Cellebrite to patch some of the vulnerabilities found by Signal and to remove full support for analyzing iPhones,^[26][27] and raised questions about the integrity of data extracted by the software.^[28][29]

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References[edit]

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The Cellebrite Physical Analyzer – the most intrusive phone-cracking tool offered by the company – no longer supports the direct extraction of iPhone data, according to a document shared with us. This follows the discovery and exploitation of a vulnerability by secure messaging app Signal.

Signal discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in Cellebrite’s software, and was able to find a way to booby-trap iPhones to corrupt the results of a scan using Physical Analyzer …

Background

Cellebrite offers hardware and software designed to allow users to break into smartphones, and extract data from them. The company’s products are used by law enforcement agencies around the world, including those in some unsavory nation states likely to be using them to crack down on political dissidents.

Signal managed to get its hands on the software suite, including the Physical Analyzer module, which offers the deepest dive into the data stored on a smartphone. The messaging company carried out its own analysis of the software, finding a surprising number of security vulnerabilities.

It was able to exploit one of these to allow any iPhone to corrupt the data on any machine running the software. This would not only render useless the scan of the connected iPhone, but also corrupt the results of both past and future scans using the same machine.

All that was required, Signal said in a blog post, was to place a carefully crafted file onto the device. The post said that the company was now doing this for all Signal users. Indeed, even some non-Signal users chose to install the app simply to get this protection.

The company chose an ironic tone in making this announcement.

In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software.

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Cellebrite responded by updating its software to close some of the security holes. However, it appears that it was unable to protect against the method Signal was using to corrupt the Physical Analyzer software, as it told users that the app no longer allows data extraction from iPhones using this software.

This message is to inform you that we have new product updates available for the following solutions:

Cellebrite UFED v7.44.0.205
Cellebrite Physical Analyzer v7.44.2
Cellebrite UFED Cloud v7.44.2

Cellebrite UFED 7.44.0.205 and Cellebrite Physical Analyzer 7.44.2 have been released to address a recently identified security vulnerability. This security patch strengthens the protection of the solutions.

As part of the update, the Advanced Logical iOS extraction flow is now available in Cellebrite UFED only.

However, the company says there is no significant user impact, as the UFED app can be used to extract the data and then pass it to Physical Analyzer for analysis.

This piece was updated following clarification by Cellebrite.

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