Velociraptor 0.7.2 Release: Digging Deeper than Ever with EWF Support, Dynamic DNS and More

Velociraptor 0.7.2 Release: Digging Deeper than Ever with EWF Support, Dynamic DNS and More

By Dr. Mike Cohen and Carlos Canto

Rapid7 is very excited to announce that version 0.7.2 of Velociraptor is now fully available for download.

In this post we’ll discuss some of the interesting new features.

EWF Support

Velociraptor has introduced the ability to analyze dead disk images in the past. Although we don’t need to analyze disk images very often, it comes up occasionally.

Previously, Velociraptor only supported analysis of DD images (AKA “Raw images”). Most people use standard acquisition software to acquire images, which uses the common EWF format to compress them.

In this 0.7.2 release, Velociraptor supports EWF (AKA E01) format using the ewf accessor. This allows Velociraptor to analyze E01 image sets.

To analyze dead disk images use the following steps:

Create a remapping configuration that maps the disk accessors into the E01 image. This automatically diverts VQL functions that look at the filesystem into the image instead of using the host’s filesystem. In this release you can just point the --add_windows_disk option to the first disk of the EWF disk set (the other parts are expected to be in the same directory and will be automatically loaded).The following creates a remapping file by recognizing the windows partition in the disk image.

$ velociraptor-v0.72-rc1-linux-amd64 deaddisk
--add_windows_disk=/tmp/e01/image.E01 /tmp/remapping.yaml -v


2. Next we launch a client with the remapping file. This causes any VQL queries that access the filesystem to come from the image instead of the host. Other than that, the client looks like a regular client and will connect to the Velociraptor server just like any other client. To ensure that this client is unique you can overri ..

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