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).