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Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a free forensic tool that can analyze a physical image in APFS format from a 5th generation iPad. I tried using Autopsy, but it throws an error when I try to load the image—it seems like it might not recognize APFS properly.
To acquire the disk image, I connected to a jailbroken iPad 5 from another Linux machine over SSH and used the dd
command to copy rdisk1
to the Linux system. As far as I understand, rdisk1
represents the physical image of the iPad. The resulting file is about 30GB, and the file
command identifies it as APFS, so I believe the image acquisition was successful.
Now I’m trying to find a tool that can actually parse or analyze this image. Ideally, I’m looking for something that’s good at carving files too. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.