Mac OS X Forensics
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Suites
- BlackBag Technologies Macintosh Forensic Suite and MacQuisition
- Subrosasoft MacForensicLab
- Architecture Technology Corporation Mac Marshal
- Access Data Forensic Toolkit
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First Responder
- Subrosasoft MacLockPick
- ASR Data SMART
- e-fense Helix3 Pro
Imaging
- Disk Arbitrator - from Aaron Burghardt, “Disk Arbitrator continuously monitors for disks to appear and disappear and tracks the disks in the main window. When a new disk is attached, the system notifies Disk Arbitrator and gives it a chance to reject mounting of a disk volume”.
- MacOSXForensics Imager Release Candidate 2.1! Image physical devices in the Encase or FTK format. MD5 and SHA1 hash support. See the Read Me file for complete documentation.
- Forward Discovery Raptor, an Ubuntu based LiveCD with Intel and PPC compilations available free
- BlackBag Technologies MacQuisition
- BlackBag Technologies SoftBlock
- DCFLDD - combines hashing and imaging into one utility. Based on 'dd' with much more functionality and provides feedback.
- DC3DD - combines hashing and imaging into one utility. Based on 'dd' with much more functionality and provides feedback.
- FTK Imager - Windows only but recognizes HFS+ file format and is free
Virtual Machine
- VMware Fusion, virtualize multiple operating systems including Mac OS X 10.5 Server
- Nova Development Parallels, virtualize multiple operating systems including Mac OS X 10.5 Server
- Sun VirtualBox, virtualize multiple operating systems for free, will not run Mac OS X 10.5 Server
- VMWare vCenter Converter, a new free product from VMWare that allows you to convert physical Windows and Linux machines as well as images to other formats into virtual machines.
Network
- Wireshark - packet sniffing
- F-Response TACTICAL - remote acquisition and analysis of Macs (and other platforms)
iPhone
- MobileSyncBrowser 3.1 - utility to view iPhone data in its native format on a Mac or Windows PC
- iPhone/iPod Touch Backup Extractor - utility to convert the iPhone and iPod Touch backup files that are created by iTunes into readily usable Mac OS X files.
Decryption
- crowbarKC, a free utility to dictionary attack a Keychain file by George Starcher.
- crowbarDMG, a free utility to dictionary attack DMG, sparseimage, and sparsebundle file types
Image Analysis
- MacForensicsLab Field Agent, free for law enforcement, application to locate images using flesh tone analysis, available on Mac, Windows, and Linux
- File Juicer, extract images and many other file types from a given source with this great utility by Echo One
- Exiftool, a free utility to extract EXIF data from a huge list of file types by Phil Harvey.
- Exif Data Dump, an Automator Action based on Exiftool by George Starcher that will turn Exif data gathering into a one step action
Image Capture
- SnagIt! for Mac - a utility to capture the screen
Hex Editors
- iBored, a free hex editor for disk sectors written by Thomas Tempelmann
- 0xED is a native, Cocoa based Hex Editor by SuaveTech
Search
- EasyFind - DEVON Technologies free search utility
- Find Any File - free utility from Thomas Tempelmann to search entire volumes
Reporting
- ThumbsUp - DEVON Technologies free utility to generate thumbnails of images
- MacOSXForensics MetaData Extractor - utility to extract metadata from any file(s) and also plot the lat/long on a Google map if available
- Emailchemy - Weird Kid Software Products
- TNEF, a free utility to decode WINMAIL.DAT email attachments by Josh Jacob
Compatibility
- MacFuse and NTFS 3-g (NTFS read/write for OS X)
- ASR Data Smart Mount (mounts images of Mac systems on Windows operating systems)
Always check out our Files section for the latest in FREE tools from this site.
Sources
- Our Store with Amazon discounts
- Apple Government and Education
- Mac Professionals offers setup of small to large scale roll-outs and Data Recovery
- CDWg offers Government discounts as well as professional services.