NAME
  mac-robber - collects data about allocated files in mounted filesystems
SYNOPSIS
  mac-robber [OPTION]
  mac-robber <DIRECTORY>
DESCRIPTION
  mac-robber is a digital investigation tool (digital forensics) that collects
  metadata from allocated files in a mounted filesystem. This is useful during
  incident response when analyzing a live system or when analyzing a dead
  system in a lab. The data can be used by the mactime tool in The Sleuth Kit
  (TSK or SleuthKit only) to make a timeline of file activity. The mac-robber
  tool is based on the grave-robber tool from TCT (The Coroners Toolkit).

  mac-robber requires that the filesystem be mounted by the operating system,
  unlike the tools in The Sleuth Kit that process the filesystem themselves.
  Therefore, mac-robber will not collect data from deleted files or files that
  have been hidden by rootkits.

  mac-robber will also modify the Access times on directories that are mounted
  with write permissions. When in forensics analysis you should mount the target
  partition as read-only.

  mac-robber is useful when dealing with a filesystem that is not supported
  by The Sleuth Kit or other filesystem analysis tools. You can run mac-robber
  on an obscure, suspect UNIX filesystem that has been mounted read-only on a
  trusted system.
OPTIONS
  -h  Print help.
  -V  Show the version.
EXAMPLE
  To see metadata from all files in a directory (recursively):

    $ mac-robber /home/user/directory

  To make a timeline using mactime command from The Sleuth Kit (TSK) and setting Brazilian timezone:

    $ mac-robber /home/user/directory | mactime \-z BRT

  An alternative is write the results into a file and read it using mactime:

    $ mac-robber /home/user/directory > /tmp/files.mr
    $ mactime \-b /tmp/files.mr \-z BRT
AUTHOR
  The Sleuth Kit was written by Brian Carrier <carrier@sleuthkit.org>.

  This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
