installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%

brew install mac-robber

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Debian aptvérifié · 92%

sudo apt install mac-robber

Debian stable package indexes · mac-robber · Source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%

sudo dnf install mac-robber

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · mac-robber · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixvérifié · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#mac-robber

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ma/mac-robber/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%

sudo zypper install mac-robber

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · mac-robber · Source: download.opensuse.org

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Digital investigation tool

Liens du projet

Commandes et alias

mac-robber

historique

Historique du projet et usages

mac-robber is a small digital forensics and incident-response tool from the Sleuth Kit ecosystem. It collects metadata from allocated files on a mounted file system and emits data that can be fed to The Sleuth Kit's mactime tool to create file-activity timelines.

Historique du projet

The Sleuth Kit site traces mac-robber to the early open-source UNIX forensics lineage around The Coroner's Toolkit. In the February 2003 Sleuth Kit Informer, Brian Carrier described writing mac-robber as similar to Rob Lee's mac-daddy, itself a variation of TCT's grave-robber, but implemented in C instead of Perl.

The project page describes the tool's scope and limits: it requires the file system to be mounted by the operating system, does not collect deleted files or files hidden by rootkits, and can modify directory access times when run against writable mounts. Those limitations are part of its forensic model rather than incidental bugs.

Historique d'adoption

mac-robber has remained useful because it covers file systems that The Sleuth Kit or other file-system analysis tools may not support directly. The official page calls out obscure UNIX file systems and common UNIX systems such as AIX as use cases.

Package metadata shows mac-robber distributed through Homebrew and several Unix/Linux package managers. Its adoption is niche, but it is durable niche software: the 1.02 release from 2010 is still packaged because the body-file/mactime workflow remains recognizable to forensic practitioners.

Modes d'utilisation

The tool is used during live incident response or lab analysis when a suspect file system has been mounted, ideally read-only on a trusted system. Its output is consumed by mactime to produce a timeline of file activity.

The official page warns that mac-robber is basic C intended to compile on any UNIX system, but also that it cannot see deleted or rootkit-hidden files because it relies on the mounted file-system view exposed by the operating system.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

mac-robber is package-nerd significant because it is a tiny, old, command-line forensic utility whose value comes from interoperability with a larger toolchain. It represents the classic Unix package pattern: one focused binary, plain-text output, and composition with mactime.

Chronologie

2000: The Coroner's Toolkit released, establishing the open-source UNIX forensics lineage cited by The Sleuth Kit.
2003-02: The Sleuth Kit Informer described mac-robber as a C tool derived from the mac-daddy/grave-robber idea.
2010-02: mac-robber 1.02 released with the newer mactime body format.
2026: The official mac-robber project page links the 1.02 source release to the sleuthkit/mac-robber GitHub repository.

Related projects

Related tools include The Coroner's Toolkit, grave-robber, mac-daddy, The Sleuth Kit, and mactime. mac-robber is best understood as a companion collector for timeline analysis rather than a standalone forensic suite.

Sources

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : vert

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Classificateur de risque

risque vert · confiance faible · appliance

Pourquoi

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signaux

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Comportement d'installation

Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 13 plateformes.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

exécutables

Exécutables installés

Commande	Type	Exposition	Note
`mac-robber`	cli	exécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

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page générée2026-07-25

version du gestionnaire1.02

gestionnaire mis à jour

données localesOK

amontnot checked

dernière version détectéenon détecté

https://www.sleuthkit.org/mac-robber/

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.sleuthkit.org/mac-robber/confiance none

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquet	brew:mac-robber
Version	1.02
Gestionnaire de paquets	Homebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquets	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mac-robber
Page d'accueil	https://www.sleuthkit.org/mac-robber/
Dépôt	https://github.com/sleuthkit/mac-robber
Docs amont	https://www.sleuthkit.org/mac-robber
Licence	GPL-2.0-or-later
Archive source	https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mac-robber/mac-robber/1.02/mac-robber-1.02.tar.gz
Bouteille	disponible (sur arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrew	non défini
Service	aucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	mac-robber
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Debian apt95%

mac-robber 1.02-13

collects data about allocated files in mounted filesystems

https://www.sleuthkit.org/mac-robber

sudo apt install mac-robber

Section: utils
Architecture: amd64
1 Dépendances
1 dépendances optionnelles
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Mac Robber

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: mac-robber from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Nix95%

mac-robber

nix profile install nixpkgs#mac-robber

normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Mac Robber

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ma/mac-robber/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Ubuntu apt95%

mac-robber 1.02-13

collects data about allocated files in mounted filesystems

https://www.sleuthkit.org/mac-robber

sudo apt install mac-robber

Section: universe/utils
Architecture: amd64
1 Dépendances
1 dépendances optionnelles
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Mac Robber

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mac-robber from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

dnf95%

mac-robber 1.02-40.fc45

Tool to create a timeline of file activity for mounted file systems

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-robber/

sudo dnf install mac-robber

License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: mac-robber
2 Dépendances
1 fournit
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Mac Robber

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mac-robber from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

zypper95%

mac-robber 1.02-14.6

Tool to create a timeline of file activity for mounted file systems

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-robber/

sudo zypper install mac-robber

License: GPL-2.0+
Category: Productivity/Security
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: mac-robber
1 Dépendances
1 fournit
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Mac Robber

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mac-robber from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

graphe de paquets

Les liens viennent du graphe local de relations entre paquets, des suppléments, des dépendances, des correspondances d'écosystèmes et de l'appartenance aux hubs.

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/mac-robber.yml

Sources utilisées

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

Installer mac-robber avec Homebrew, apt, dnf, Nix, zypper