ntfstool v1.5 releases: Forensics tool for NTFS

by do son · Published October 4, 2021 · Updated March 30, 2022

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.

Command	Description
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
btree	Display VCN content and Btree index for an inode
bitlocker	Display detailed information and hash ($bitlocker$) for all VMK. It is possible to test a password or recovery key. If it is correct, the decrypted VMK and FVEK is displayed.
bitdecrypt	Decrypt a volume to a file using password, recovery key or bek.
efs	List, display and decrypt EFS related structures.
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.
streams	Display Alternate Data Streams
undelete	Search and extract deleted files for a volume.
shell	Start a mini Unix-like shell
smart	Display S.M.A.R.T data