Recovering data from a Nokia mobile device...

A client came to us requiring a full mobile phone forensic investigation on a Nokia device. We were tasked with retrieving all available information on the device, including contacts, sent and received SMS messages (including deleted ones), emails and any other data we could find.

In addition to this, we had two specific requests; information relating to several phone numbers and key words. The main tool utilised during this case was Oxygen Mobile Forensics Suite 2011, which is a thorough extraction tool used to retrieve data from smart phones in particular. The second tool we used was MOBILedit Forensic Lite, a trusted phone investigation tool that is highly rated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. These two tools were used to investigate the phone’s internal memory and memory card.