Misc

Comparison of our tool afro (APFS file recovery) with Blackbag Blacklight and Sleuthkit

At this years ARES conference, Jonas Plum (Siemens) and me (Andreas Dewald, ERNW Research GmbH) published a paper about the forensic analysis of APFS, file system internals and presented different methodologies for file recovery. We also publicly released a tool implementing our presented approaches, called afro (APFS file recovery).

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Building

Reading the BlueCoat FileSystem

You may remember our last post regarding the SGOS system and the proprietary file system. Since then, we got access to a newer version of the system (6.6.4.2). Still not the most current one (which seems to be 6.7.1.1) nor of the 6.6.x branch (which seems to be 6.6.5.1) though. As this system version also used the same proprietary filesystem (although it initially booted from a FAT32 partition), I decided to take a deeper look into this.

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