ntfstool: Forensics tool for NTFS

ntfstool

NTFSTool is a forensic tool to play with disks and NTFS volumes. It supports reading partition info (mbr, partition table, vbr) but also information on bitlocker encrypted partition (fve). See examples below to see some of the features!

Features

Forensics

NTFSTool displays the complete structure of the master boot record, volume boot record, partition table, and MFT file record. It is also possible to dump any file (even hidden $mft) or parse $usnjrnl, $logfile including a file from Alternate Data Stream (ADS). The undelete command will search for any file record marked as “not in use” and allow you to retrieve the file (or part of the file if it was already rewritten). It supports input from image file or live disks. You can also use tools like OSFMount to mount your disk image. Sparse and compressed files are also (partially) supported.

Bitlocker support

For bitlocked partition, it can display FVE records, check a password and support 3 formats (bek, password, recovery key), extract VMK and FVEK. There is no bruteforcing feature because GPU-based cracking is better (see Bitcracker and Hashcat).

Shell

There is a limited shell with few commands (exit, cd, ls , cat , pwd, cp).

Use

the help command displays some examples for each command. Options can be entered as decimal or hex number with “0x” prefix.