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EWFACQUIRE of USB in SIFT machine

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(@thorgall)
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Hi

Overall I want to use the tool "ewfacquire" on a USB stick. 

I have set up a forensic work station, a SIFT VM on VirtualBox on a Windows 10 host. Writeblocker OK.

I have enabled USB on virtualbox and can see the USB in SIFT when i run "df -h".

But when I run "fdisk -l" or "lsblk" the USB does not show up.

ewfacquire wont accept commands such as:

$ ewfacquire /media/sf_D_DRIVE/ /home/sansforensics/Documents/A1/

My working hypothesis is that I have to get the USB to show up as partition. 

I want to use ewfacquire directly from the USB. 

Any ideas how to proceed? 

 
Posted : 26/08/2023 6:27 am
AmNe5iA
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So I find this confusing. Are you trying to take an bit for bit image of the USB stick or are you trying to save a bit fior bit image of another device directly onto the USB stick?  You certainily aren't trying to image a USB onto itself, are you?

So a USB stick would normally show up as say /dev/sdc (or sdb or sdd etc.) and any partitions would show as /dev/sdc1 (and possibly sdc2, sdc3 etc but multiple partitions on a USB stick are unusual.)  The partition may be mounted as:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdc1 29G 288K 29G 1% /media/user/Vol_Label

so use teh command:

$ sudo ewfacquire /dev/sdc

 

 
Posted : 04/09/2023 12:26 pm
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