System Forensics, Investigation, and Response, 3rd Edition

Macintosh Forensic Techniques

This section covers some general forensic techniques to use on Macintosh systems. In the preceding sections, you learned about the Macintosh operating system, and you learned where to look for important logs, which is a valuable step in any forensic investigation. Now, you will learn a variety of forensic techniques.

Target Disk Mode

One of the most fundamental steps in forensics is to create a bit-level copy of the suspect drive. If the suspect drive is a Macintosh, all the techniques you know from Linux or Windows can still be used. You can utilize the dd command along with netcat to make a forensic copy. You can also use the imaging tools within EnCase or Forensic Toolkit. However, Macintosh provides another ...