MFT

This is a parser for the MFT (master file table) format.

MSRV is latest stable rust.

Documentation

Python bindings are available as well at https://github.com/omerbenamram/pymft-rs (and at PyPi https://pypi.org/project/mft/)

Features

• Implemented using 100% safe rust - and works on all platforms supported by rust (that have stdlib).
• Supports JSON and CSV outputs.
• Supports extracting resident data streams.

Installation (associated binary utility):

• Download latest executable release from https://github.com/omerbenamram/mft/releases
  • Releases are automatically built for for Windows, macOS, and Linux. (64-bit executables only)
• Build from sources using cargo install mft

mft_dump (Binary utility):

The main binary utility provided with this crate is mft_dump, and it provides a quick way to convert mft snapshots to different output formats.

Some examples

• mft_dump <input_file> will dump contents of mft entries as JSON.
• mft_dump -o csv <input_file> will dump contents of mft entries as CSV.
• mft_dump --extract-resident-streams <output_directory> -o json <input_file> will extract all resident streams in MFT to files in <output_directory>.

Library usage:

use mft::MftParser;
use mft::attribute::MftAttributeContent;
use std::path::PathBuf;

fn main() {
    // Change this to a path of your MFT sample. 
    let fp = PathBuf::from(format!("{}/samples/MFT", std::env::var("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR").unwrap())); 
    
    let mut parser = MftParser::from_path(fp).unwrap();
    for entry in parser.iter_entries() {
        match entry {
            Ok(e) =>  {
                for attribute in e.iter_attributes().filter_map(|attr| attr.ok()) {
                    match attribute.data {
                        MftAttributeContent::AttrX10(standard_info) => {
                            println!("\tX10 attribute: {:#?}", standard_info)         
                        },
                        MftAttributeContent::AttrX30(filename_attribute) => {
                            println!("\tX30 attribute: {:#?}", filename_attribute)         
                        },
                        _ => {
                            println!("\tSome other attribute: {:#?}", attribute)
                        }
                    }
                   
                }
            }
            Err(err) => eprintln!("{}", err),
        }
    }
}

Thanks/Resources:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/DevNotes/master-file-table
• https://github.com/libyal/libfsntfs/blob/master/documentation/New%20Technologies%20File%20System%20(NTFS).asciidoc
• https://github.com/forensicmatt/RustyMft