TSK-js

A module that allows you to investigate disk images using Javascript by using The Sleuth Kit as library.

Its main functionalities are image analysis (mmls), list allocated and deleted files inside a directory or file system (fls), extract files (icat), generate timelines (mactime) and look up strings inside the image (grep).

Some of those functionalities are based on tools offered by The Sleuth Kit.

Installation

You can install it just using the command:

$ npm install tsk-js --save

Documentation

The full documentation can be found here

Usage example

This is an example of a script that performs a brief analysis. To learn how to use it in more detail go to User guide section.

const { TSK } = require("tsk-js");
analyzeImage("hdd-001.dd")

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function searchRecursive(needle, img, imgaddr, inode, cb) {
    // Retrieve files in current folder
    const files = img.list({ imgaddr, inode });

    // Process 
    files
        .filter((f) => f.name === needle)
        .forEach((f) => cb(f));
 
    files
        .filter((f) => f.type === "directory")
        .forEach((f) => searchRecursive(needle, img, imgaddr, f.inode, cb));
}

function analyzePartition(img, imgaddr) {
    // Search file
    searchRecursive("carta.txt", img, imgaddr, undefined, (file) => {
        const { inode } = file;
        const buff = img.get({ imgaddr, inode });

        console.log("File found!");
        console.log("Print it's content:");
        console.log("---------------------------");
        console.log(buff.toString());
        console.log("---------------------------");
    });

    // Generate timeline
    const timeline = img.timeline(() => {}, { imgaddr });
    console.log(timeline.length);
}

function analyzeDisk(img, res) {
    res.partitions
        .filter((p) => p.hasFs)
        .forEach((p) => analyzePartition(img, p.start));
}

function analyzeImage(imgfile) {
    const img = new TSK("hdd-001.dd");
    const res = img.analyze();
    if (res.type === "disk") {
        analyzeDisk(img, res);
    } else {
        analyzePartition(img, 0);
    }
}