NAME¶
mac-robber - collects data about allocated files in mounted filesystems
SYNOPSIS¶
mac-robber [OPTION]
mac-robber <DIRECTORY>
DESCRIPTION¶
mac-robber is a digital investigation tool (digital forensics) that
collects metadata from allocated files in a mounted filesystem. This is useful
during incident response when analyzing a live system or when analyzing a dead
system in a lab. The data can be used by the mactime tool in The Sleuth Kit
(TSK or SleuthKit only) to make a timeline of file activity. The
mac-robber tool is based on the grave-robber tool from TCT (The
Coroners Toolkit).
mac-robber requires that the filesystem be mounted by the operating
system, unlike the tools in The Sleuth Kit that process the filesystem
themselves. Therefore,
mac-robber will not collect data from deleted
files or files that have been hidden by rootkits.
mac-robber will also modify the Access times on directories that are
mounted with write permissions. When in forensics analysis you should mount
the target partition as read-only.
mac-robber is useful when dealing with a filesystem that is not supported
by The Sleuth Kit or other filesystem analysis tools. You can run
mac-robber on an obscure, suspect UNIX filesystem that has been mounted
read-only on a trusted system.
OPTIONS¶
- -h
- Print help.
- -V
- Show the version.
EXAMPLE¶
To see metadata from all files in a directory (recursively):
$ mac-robber /home/user/directory
To make a timeline using mactime command from The Sleuth Kit (TSK) and setting
Brazilian timezone:
$ mac-robber /home/user/directory | mactime -z BRT
An alternative is write the results into a file and read it using mactime:
$ mac-robber /home/user/directory > /tmp/files.mr
$ mactime -b /tmp/files.mr -z BRT
AUTHOR¶
The Sleuth Kit was written by Brian Carrier <carrier@sleuthkit.org>.
This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
<eriberto@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by
others).