Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) :

IEF is a digital forensics solution that can search a hard drive, live RAM, or files for Internet-related evidence. A data recovery solution that was designed with digital forensics examiners/investigators in mind, IEF is also used by IT security professionals, litigation support personnel, incident response teams, cybersecurity specialists and corporate investigators.  IEF can recover content from social networking pages, instant messenger chat histories, popular webmail applications, web browsing history, and peer-to-peer sites and other online communications.

Internet Evidence Finder (IEF)

FIND INTERNET ARTIFACTS:

  • Social networking applications like Facebook and Twitter
  • Webmail applications like Gmail and Hotmail/Outlook.com
    Instant messenger & chat applications like GoogleTalk and iChat
  • P2P File Sharing Applications like Ares and eMule
  • Cloud-Based Services like Dropbox and Flickr
  • Web browser activity from Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari and others
  • Refined browsing results like rebuilt webpages and Google Maps queries
  • Pictures and videos with EXIF data
  • Web video recovery from applications like Chatroulette and YapChat
  • Mobile Backups from iOS smartphones
  • Usenet files from applications like Xnews and Grabit
  • Mapping queries from Google Maps and Bing Maps.

Powerful search capabilities

  • Enables data insight derived from, inter alia, social network communications, instant messaging, cloud-based applications, P2P apps, backup files, webmail, web browser history, photos and videos
  • Recovers deleted data from the unallocated space and RAM through new carving techniques
  • Searches logical or physical disk volumes
  • Searches individual files and directories
  • Ability to search multiple files or data media simultaneously

Fast results

  • ‘Quick Search’ results are visible immediately
  • View the results in real-time while the search continues
  • Search for specific data based on type, keyword and location
  • Refine your search results based on skin tones
  • Very fast searching strokes through multi-threading and multi-core support

Clear reports

  • IEF rebuilds web pages in their original format on the date they were opened
  • IEF shows the search as entered by the user
  • IEF provides relevant information for each category
  • Search, filter and bookmarking of important evidence
  • Export report in HTML, PDF, Excel, CSV and tab-delimited format
  • Share reports with other detectives with the ‘portable case folder’
  • View the results in a graphical interface with timeline

Ensuring integrity

  • The original (meta) data is not changed
  • All findings can be verified
  • Very convincingly in court

Easy in use

  • IEF searches with one search action for 230 internet artifacts
  • No need to use multiple scripts
  • Easy installation; start working in a case immediately
  • No extensive training required

Visualization

  • See evidence in a chronological timeline with IEF Timeline
  • Zoom in on webmail, chat or browser history over a specific period of time
  • Support for external applications
  • Shows events on maps