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Check a Filesystem Dump with mvt-ios

When you are ready, you can proceed running mvt-ios against the filesystemp dump or mount point:

$ mvt-ios check-fs --help
Usage: mvt-ios check-fs [OPTIONS] DUMP_PATH

  Extract artifacts from a full filesystem dump

Options:
  -i, --iocs PATH     Path to indicators file
  -o, --output PATH   Specify a path to a folder where you want to store JSON
                      results

  -f, --fast          Avoid running time/resource consuming features
  -l, --list-modules  Print list of available modules and exit
  -m, --module TEXT   Name of a single module you would like to run instead of
                      all

  --help              Show this message and exit.

Following is an example of basic usage of check-fs:

mvt-ios check-fs /path/to/filesystem/dump/ --output /path/to/output/

This command will create a few JSON files containing the results from the extraction. If you do not specify a --output option, mvt-ios will just process the data without storing results on disk.

Through the --iocs argument you can specify a STIX2 file defining a list of malicious indicators to check against the records extracted from the backup by mvt. Any matches will be highlighted in the terminal output as well as saved in the output folder using a "_detected" suffix to the JSON file name.