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macOS Artifact Parsing Tool (mac_apt)

Forensics & Incident Response

A Python‑based DFIR framework for parsing macOS and iOS artifacts from disk images, live systems, backups, and various collection formats.

Python Latest v1.29.0 · 3mo ago Security brief →

Features

  • Cross‑platform operation without pyobjc dependencies
  • Supports multiple input formats (E01, VMDK, AFF4, DMG, SPARSEIMAGE, split DD, Velociraptor collections, etc.)
  • Exports artifacts in XLSX, CSV, TSV, JSONL and SQLite for downstream analysis

Security Response History

1 CVE
CVE Severity Disclosed Patched (this tool) vs Ecosystem Median
CVE-2023-4863 KEV high
CVSS 8.8
2023-09-13 2026-01-14 2y 4mo / median 2y 4mo

Recent releases

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v1.29.0 New feature
Notable features
  • UAC collections support
  • Typedstream iMessage parsing
  • Big Sur APFS fixes
v1.28.11 Bug fix

macOS forensics tool receives bug fixes and performance optimizations with improved exception handling for slightly corrupted disk images.

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Install & Platforms

Platforms
macos linux windows arm64

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