Hello readers and welcome back! Today we are proud to announce the newest round of updates to the Live Response Collection, specifically with a focus on some new features on the OSX side!
Improved OSX features!
The biggest change is that the OSX version of the Live Response Collection now creates a memory dump using osxpmem, as long as you run the program with root privileges. The script does the internal math, just like on the Windows side, to make sure that you have enough free space on your destination, regardless of whether or not it is an internal or external drive. I have encountered where OSX provides differently formatted results for the sizes (sometimes throwing in things like an equal sign or a random letter) and I tried to account for that as much as possible. If you encounter a bug with the memory dump please let me know and I will try to figure it out, but as I have done more and more work on the OSX side I have come to realize just how terrible OSX is. For example, some Apple programs do not work properly if it was created on Yosemite and it was running on El Capitan...so much for "it just works"! If you encounter any issues I will try to get to the bottom of it as best as I can though!
The other main OSX feature is a topic that was briefly touched on during the Forensic Lunch on Friday. Dave, Nicole, and James talked about the FSEvents Parser that they wrote. If you run the script with root privileges the script will copy the fseventsd data to the correlating destination folder, and then you can run their tool to go through the data. (NOTE: It is best to transfer the data to a Windows machine to do this, otherwise the fseventsd data may be hidden from you, depending on how the access permissions on your machine are set)
A new naming scheme!
As you may have noticed, the title is "Live Response Collection - Allosaurus". I decided to go with the names of dinosaurs to differentiate between Live Response Collection versions, which will also ensure that you are using the latest build and also to help with any bugs that may pop up. Sometimes a bug that is reported has been fixed in a newer release, but because of the old naming scheme, it wasn't immediately clear if you were actually using the latest build.
As always, please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments regarding the Live Response Collection
LiveResponseCollection-Allosaurus.zip - download here
MD5: 4198905df8e5c1ac0fc6f49373e5d374
SHA-256: ee2851911af948b38ec3b44a7fc4fbe5c3442720f5620dfd1ca6e7643fc09902
Updated: January 12, 2016