why use SIM Analyzer?

Nearly 80% of the cell phones in today's market use the GSM communications protocol. Unlike CDMA phones, GSM phones use a small card known as a Subscriber Identity Module or SIM. This card holds important information that needs special software to get at it's contents. SIM Analyzer has that ability and more!

What can SIM analyzer do?

Recover Last Number Dialed, Abbreviated Dialing Numbers, Active and Deleted text (SMS) messages, just to name a few.

SIM Analyzer takes the ease of use formula that works so well with Cell Phone Analyzer, and applies it even further. In just a few steps SIM Analyzer will have your SIM card processed and your report created, ready for the next assignment or SIM card.

But that's not all! SIM Analyzer also let's you re-analyze the contents of the original SIM card, even after the actual physical SIM is no longer available. After SIM Analyzer processes your SIM card two data files are created, a plain text data file and an encrypted data file. Both the same contents, but both used for two different reasons.

The plain text data file or ".BKFD" file holds all the raw data that was read from the SIM during analysis. Plain text, not proprietary, ready to be read by any application capable of interpreting SIM card records and files.

The next file, ".BKFE" file is an encrypted version of the plain text data file but with some extra info. This encrypted file is injected with an MD5 hash value which is used to validate the file during the decryption process. This is extremely important when legal proceedings are involved.

SIM Analyzer recovers all the general files found in the Telecom group as defined in the GSM 11.11v6 standards. In addition to the Telecom group, more data is pulled from the GSM file group.

Did you know SMS comes in different flavors?

SIM Analyzer is prepared for the international! In America we use the standard character set from the ASCII charts, but it would be rather presumptuous of us to stop there. SIM Analyzer displays all SMS and EMS messages in 3 different variations. 7-bit ASCII, 8-bit ASCII and 16-bit UCS2. This allows your final report to show Arabic for example. There is one more section added to the end of each SMS record - Hex. The Hex section allows you to copy and paste the actual message portion of the SMS, minus any header information. This data can then be pasted into any application you might be using, in case you want to verify your results.

SIM analyzer has a big brother

SIM Analyzer comes in a Standard version and a Pro version. The Pro version comes with a SC/PC compliant USB SIM card reader and (4) BKForensics, LLC Admin SIM cards. These are special SIM cards that let you take your IMSI and ICCID values from your source SIM and write them to our BKForensics, LLC Admin cards.

What if I have a phone with a missing sIM card?

SIM Analyzer Pro allows you to manually enter the ICCID and IMSI values. There are "Flasher" phone box's on the market; HWK, UFS, Twister, for example, that can get you a flash dump or binary dump of the phones contents. This data will often have the last known or inserted SIM card details (IMSI and ICCID).

What do I do with these "special" Admin SIM cards?

Cell phones use the IMSI, ICCID and Ki to authenticate onto their providers network. Without this authentication the mobile phone can not receive and make phone calls. Nor can it send or receive SMS. In today's security aware world, privacy is very important. Many cell phone providers have the ability to protect their customers in the event their cell phone is lost or stolen. Should the customer contact their cell phone provider and report their phone stolen (while you have it) you could risk losing all contacts from that phone!

By running our "Safety SIM" feature using our BKForensics, LLC Admin SIM cards - you can keep the phone off the network - preventing silent "Kill" codes from coming down from the cell phone provider and deleting potentially important information.

But that's not all! A secondary benefit of this feature is preserving data. Another security feature cell phone manufactures have added is the detection of "foreign" SIM cards in a phone. If the cell phone detects a different SIM card in the phone than the one that was previously used, all Call Detail Logs are DELETED!

Using our BKForensics, LLC Admin cards you can rest assured that your Call Detail Logs will be preserved!

How do i know what aPDU commands are being sent to the SIM Card?

SIM Analyzer creates a standard and detailed (user option) log file. The detailed version contains the exact APDU command sent to the SIM card. This is done to remove any question what commands where sent to your sensitive evidence or source SIM card. No hidden "black box" commands used in SIM Analyzer.

SIM Analyzer is Read-Only. What this means is only "READ" commands are sent to the SIM card when accessing any records, either Binary or Fixed Linear.

Where do i get SIM Analyzer and SIM analyzer Pro?

We want you to try our software before you buy. You can download the full working version here. The only difference are some peskie Dots that get inserted into parts of the report.

Order your copy of SIM Analyzer and SIM Analyzer Pro here