NTFSTool is a forensic tool to play with NTFS partition. It supports reading partition info (mbr, partition table, vbr) but also information on bitlocker encrypted partition (fve). See examples below that show some features !
NTFSTool displays the complete structure of 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. 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).
For bitlocked partition, it can check a password and support 3 formats (bek, password, recovery key). There is no bruteforcing feature because GPU-based cracking is better (see Bitcracker and Hashcat).
There is a very limited shell with few commands (exit, cd, ls , cat , pwd).
the help command displays some examples for each command.
ntfstool help [command]
| Command | Description |
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| info | Display information for all disks and volumes |
| mbr | Display MBR structure, code and partitions for a disk |
| gpt | Display GPT structure, code and partitions for a disk |
| vbr | Display VBR structure and code for a specidifed volume (ntfs, fat32, fat1x, bitlocker supported) |
| mft | Display FILE record details for a specified MFT inode. Almost all attribute types supported |
| bitlocker | Display detailed information and hash ( |
| bitdecrypt | Decrypt a volume to a file using password, recovery key or bek. |
| fve | Display information for the specified FVE block (0, 1, 2) |
| logfile | Dump $LogFile file in specified format: csv, json, raw. |
| usn | Dump $UsnJrnl file in specified format: csv, json, raw. |
| undelete | Search and extract deleted files for a volume. |
| shell | Start a mini-shell |
- May contains bugs and unsupported cases.
- No image file support. You can use tools like OSFMount to mount your disk image.
- No documentation 😶.
- cppcoro (vcpkg): A library of C++ coroutine abstractions for the coroutines TS.
| info |
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| info disk=3 |
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| info disk=3 volume=1 |
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| mbr disk=3 |
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| gpt disk=1 |
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| vbr disk=3 volume=1 |
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| mft disk=2 volume=1 inode=5 (root folder) |
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| bitlocker disk=3 volume=1 |
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| bitlocker disk=3 volume=1 password=badpassword |
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| bitlocker disk=3 volume=1 password=123456789 |
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| bitdecrypt disk=3 volume=1 output=decrypted.img fvek=35b8197e6d74d8521f49698d5f5565892cf286ae5323c65631965c905a9d7da4 |
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| fve disk=3 volume=1 fve_block=2 |
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| logfile disk=4 volume=1 output=logfile.csv format=csv |
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| Sample of logfile.csv |
LSN,ClientPreviousLSN,UndoNextLSN,ClientID,RecordType,TransactionID,RedoOperation,UndoOperation,MFTClusterIndex,TargetVCN,TargetLCN
5269000,5268967,5268967,0,1,24,SetNewAttributeSizes,SetNewAttributeSizes,2,10,43700
5269019,5269000,5269000,0,1,24,UpdateNonresidentValue,Noop,0,0,37594
5269044,5269019,5269019,0,1,24,SetNewAttributeSizes,SetNewAttributeSizes,2,10,43700
5269063,5269044,5269044,0,1,24,SetNewAttributeSizes,SetNewAttributeSizes,2,10,43700
5269082,5269063,5269063,0,1,24,UpdateNonresidentValue,Noop,0,0,37594
5269103,5269082,5269082,0,1,24,SetNewAttributeSizes,SetNewAttributeSizes,2,10,43700
5269122,5269103,0,0,1,24,ForgetTransaction,CompensationLogRecord,0,0,18446744073709551615
5269133,0,0,0,1,24,UpdateResidentValue,UpdateResidentValue,2,13,43703
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| usn disk=4 volume=1 output=usn.csv format=csv |
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| Sample of usn.csv |
MajorVersion,MinorVersion,FileReferenceNumber,FileReferenceSequenceNumber,ParentFileReferenceNumber,ParentFileReferenceSequenceNumber,Usn,Timestamp,Reason,SourceInfo,SecurityId,FileAttributes,Filename 2,0,53,4,5,5,0,2020-02-26 21:43:36,FILE_CREATE,0,0,DIRECTORY,Nouveau dossier 2,0,53,4,5,5,96,2020-02-26 21:43:36,FILE_CREATE+CLOSE,0,0,DIRECTORY,Nouveau dossier 2,0,53,4,5,5,192,2020-02-26 21:43:38,RENAME_OLD_NAME,0,0,DIRECTORY,Nouveau dossier 2,0,53,4,5,5,288,2020-02-26 21:43:38,RENAME_NEW_NAME,0,0,DIRECTORY,test 2,0,53,4,5,5,360,2020-02-26 21:43:38,RENAME_NEW_NAME+CLOSE,0,0,DIRECTORY,test 2,0,53,4,5,5,432,2020-02-26 21:43:39,OBJECT_ID_CHANGE,0,0,DIRECTORY,test 2,0,53,4,5,5,504,2020-02-26 21:43:39,OBJECT_ID_CHANGE+CLOSE,0,0,DIRECTORY,test 2,0,54,2,53,4,576,2020-02-26 21:43:41,FILE_CREATE,0,0,ARCHIVE,Nouveau document texte.txt |
| undelete disk=4 volume=1 |
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| undelete disk=4 volume=1 inode=41 output=restored_kitten.jpg |
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| shell disk=4 volume=1 |
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