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API Reference: Analyzing Slack Space and File System Artifacts

The Sleuth Kit (TSK) CLI Tools

blkls - Extract Slack Space

# Extract slack space from partition at offset 2048
blkls -s -o 2048 evidence.dd > slack_space.raw

fls - List Files and Alternate Data Streams

# Recursive file listing with ADS
fls -r -o 2048 evidence.dd

# Filter for ADS entries (lines containing ":")
fls -r -o 2048 evidence.dd | grep ":"

icat - Extract File Content by Inode

# Extract $MFT (inode 0)
icat -o 2048 evidence.dd 0 > MFT

# Extract ADS content
icat -o 2048 evidence.dd 14523:Zone.Identifier

istat - Display Inode Details

istat -o 2048 evidence.dd 14523

analyzeMFT (Python)

pip install analyzeMFT

analyzeMFT.py -f MFT -o mft_output.csv -c

USN Journal Parsing

Record Structure (USN_RECORD_V2)

Offset Size Field
0 4 Record length
4 2 Major version
8 8 MFT reference
16 8 Parent MFT reference
32 8 Timestamp (FILETIME)
40 4 Reason flags
56 2 Filename length
58 2 Filename offset

Reason Flags

Flag Meaning
0x100 FILE_CREATE
0x200 FILE_DELETE
0x1000 RENAME_OLD_NAME
0x2000 RENAME_NEW_NAME
0x80000000 CLOSE

bulk_extractor

bulk_extractor -o output_dir/ slack_space.raw

MFTECmd (Eric Zimmerman)

MFTECmd.exe -f MFT --csv output/ --csvf mft_analysis.csv
MFTECmd.exe -f UsnJrnl_J --csv output/ --csvf usn_journal.csv

foremost - File Carving

foremost -t jpg,pdf,zip -i slack_space.raw -o carved_files/

References