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!
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 including 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 support 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.
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).
There is a limited shell with few commands (exit, cd, ls , cat , pwd, cp).
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) |
extract | Extract a file from a volume. |
image | Create an image file of a disk or volume. |
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) |
reparse | Parse and display reparse points from $Extend$Reparse. |
logfile | Dump $LogFile file in specified format: csv, json, raw. |
usn | Dump $UsnJrnl file in specified format: csv, json, raw. |
shadow | List volume shadow snapshots from selected disk and volume. |
undelete | Search and extract deleted files for a volume. |
shell | Start a mini-shell |
- May contains bugs and unsupported cases.
- No documentation 😶.
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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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extract disk=3 volume=1 from=\bob.txt output=d:\bob.txt |
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extract disk=0 volume=4 --system output=d:\system |
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image disk=2 volume=2 output=d:\imagevol.raw |
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image disk=2 output=d:\image.raw |
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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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reparse disk=0 volume=4 |
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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 |
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 |
shadow disk=0 volume=4 |
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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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