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AccessData Forensic Toolkit 6.0
Release Notes

Document Date: 10/27/2015
©2015 AccessData Group, Inc. All rights reserved

Introduction
This document lists the new features, fixed issues, and known issues for this version of Forensic Toolkit®
(FTK®). All known issues published under previous release notes still apply until they are listed under “Fixed
Issues.”

Supported Platforms
For a list of supported platforms for FTK see the following:
http://accessdata.com/solutions/digital-forensics/forensic-toolkit-ftk/technical
Important: Future versions of FTK will no longer support running on Windows XP.

6.0 New and Improved
The following items are new and improved for this release:

System
Windows 10 Support
The

application and the agent now support Microsoft Windows 10.

Installation
All

installation files have been signed with SHA-256.

Agent
New

Agent Certificate
To ensure you can continue to integrate with third-party applications, a new agent certificate will be
issued to all clients current on their subscription.

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Database
When

installing a PostgreSQL database, a newer version (9.3.5.42) is now installed.

When

installing a PostgreSQL database, there is no longer a dialog to choose a method of database
optimization. A default setting is now used.

New

Put each case in its own DB option (MS SQL and PostgreSQL only)
To improve performance, when you create new cases, a new database is created for each new case.
This feature is enabled by default in the following new option:
Database > Put each case in its own DB
In addition to improved performance, if you configured the database location to be In the case folder, the
database files are located under the case folder. This lets you easily back up a case at the folder level as
the case data and the database for the case are all under one case folder.

Processing
Support

for Outlook for Mac (OLM) files
Processing will now detect and enumerate exported Outlook for Mac (OLM) data files.

Processing Options
The

Processing Options interface has been enhanced with pre-defined, one-click options. The following
built-in processing option buttons are available:
Forensic

processing (Default)

eDiscovery

processing

Summation

processing

Basic
Field

assessment
mode

Mobile Support
Cellebrite®

Image Support
You can now view Cellebrite files within FTK.

Decryption
Decrypting

Dropbox databases is supported.

Internet Artifacts
Support

has been added for parsing and viewing the following types of data:

Skype
DropBox

Imager
An

updated version of AccessData Imager (3.4.2) is available.
See New AD1 files and Imager 3.4.x on page 6.

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Examiner
Web Viewer
FTK®

Web Viewer, Powered by Summation®
FTK now includes a single license of AccessData Summation.
You can conduct case assessment earlier with real-time collaboration. Attorneys or other teams now
have instant access to case data as it’s being identified in FTK while incident responders are in the field
or performing on-site collections.

Multi-Case

Search
Using the Summation web viewer, you can speed up the searching process by searching across multiple
cases instead of one case at a time.

Columns
The following columns have been added:
Microsoft

Office document metadata:

CreateTime

(Content created)

EmbeddedComments

(PPT files)

HiddenColumnsRows

(Excel files)

HiddenWorkSheets

(Excel files)

LastPrinted
LastSavedTime

(Date last saved)

RevisionNumber
TotalEditingTime

(Word and PPT)

TrackChanges


Adobe files metadata:
Meta-data

- DateCreated

Meta-data

- DateModified

Mobile

Phones
Many columns related to Cellebrite support.

OCR

Graphic
This column provides the OCR confidence % score for each file that has been processed with OCR. This
column is sortable which helps you determine which files may need to be manually reviewed for
keywords.

Internet

Data

Columns

for internet data have been grouped into sub-categories to make columns easier to find and

identify.
New

columns have been added for

Internet

Chat

Profile

- (Chrome profiles, Skype accounts, and mobile phone user accounts)

Offline

User Email - (Chrome offline mail database.)

Search

Terms - (search terms used by internet browsers and mobile phone web searches)

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Other
Various

tool tips have been added.

Fixed Issues in 6.0
The following issues have been fixed in this release:

System
Installation/Upgrade/Migration
Fixed

an error that may occur when installing a distributed processing manager. (32938, 33103)

During

the Processing Engine installation, when you customize the path to the temporary files, it now
carries over to the FTK UI. (27001)

Database
Updates

have been made to improve performance when using a PostgreSQL database.

Processing
Improved

the carving of ZIP files that sometimes caused Additional Analysis jobs to hang. (29824)

Performance
Performance and stability has been improved in the following areas:
Processing
Updating

between FTK and AccessData Summation. (31583)

count numbers in the File List. (30016)

Memory

usage when scrolling through thumbnails on the Graphics tab. (30068)

Multiple

users working in the same case. (30725)

PostgreSQL

database with tens of millions of items. (32035)

Examiner
Export
When

exporting decrypted files to an AD1 file, then processing that AD1 file, the files are no longer shown
as empty folders or place-holders. (33102)

Other
AVI

files are played properly on the Video tab. (30756)

INK

files that have Russian characters no longer report “Invalid Shortcut File”. (23447)

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Important Information
Latest Documentation
The

User Guide is always being updated. For the latest FTK documentation, go to the following link:
http://www.accessdata.com/support/product-downloads/ftk-download-page

Installation and upgrade
For

FTK installation and upgrade instructions, see the FTK Quick Install Guide and the detailed FTK
Installation Guide which are available at
http://www.accessdata.com/support/product-downloads/ftk-download-page

FTK

supports Distributed Processing Engines (DPEs).
Before installing Distributed Processing, see the Install Guide.

Upgrading CodeMeter
FTK

5.6.1 and later include an updated version of CodeMeter Runtime Kit (5.21).

If

this is a new installation of FTK you do not need to do anything and the latest version of CodeMeter
is installed.

If

you are upgrading to FTK 5.6.1, be aware that a security vulnerability has been detected in
Codemeter 4.5. However, if you simply upgrade from CodeMeter 4.5 to 5.21, the vulnerability
remains. To fix the vulnerability, you must manually uninstall 4.5 before installing 5.21.
If you are upgrading to FTK 5.6.1, manually uninstall CodeMeter first and then install FTK 5.6.1 which
will install a clean CodeMeter 5.21. Otherwise, after upgrading to FTK 5.6.1, manually uninstall
CodeMeter 4.5 and then manually install CodeMeter 5.21.

Running PostgreSQL on a Virtual Machine
If

you run PostgreSQL on a virtual machine with a dynamically allocated virtual hard drive, you must
manually stop the PostgreSQL service before rebooting the virtual machine. Otherwise, PostgreSQL will
become corrupted.
If you run PostgreSQL on a virtual machine with a fixed size virtual hard drive, then PostgreSQL will not
become corrupted when rebooting.

Recommendations
Cerberus

writes binaries to the AD Temp folder momentarily in order to perform the malware analysis.
Upon completion, it will quickly delete the binary. It is important to ensure that your antivirus is not
scanning the AD Temp folder. If the antivirus deletes/quarantines the binary from the temp, Cerberus
analysis will not be performed.

If

you choose to have a case’s database files placed in the case folder, do not move your case folder
without first archiving and detaching the case.

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New AD1 files and Imager 3.4.x
Any AD1 file created by FTK or Summation 6.0 or later can only be opened with Imager 3.4.0 or later.
Imager 3.4 can be freely download from the AD website:
http://accessdata.com/product-download
Using an older version of Imager will result in an “Image detection failed” error.
This happens because the AD1 format was enhanced to support forward compatibility between AccessData
products. Newer AD1s have a version 4 in the header instead of 3. A hex editor can be used to quickly
determine if your AD1 is v3 or v4.

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Where to get more information
Use the following documentation resources to learn more about this product. Each document is available in PDF
format in the download ISO file. The User Guide is also available through the Help menu in FTK.
The latest version of each document is available in the Product Release pane on the FTK product download
page:
http://www.accessdata.com/support/product-downloads/ftk-download-page
Document

Description

Quick Installation Guide

Basic information about how to install and upgrade this and related
products.

FTK Installation Guide

Information about how to install and upgrade this and related products.

User Guide

Information about how to use this product, including detailed technical
information and instructions for performing tasks.

Upgrading, Migrating, and Moving
Cases

Information about upgrading and migrating cases from 4.1 to 4.2, and
moving cases from one database to another.

Upgrading Cases

Information about upgrading cases from 4.1 to 4.2.

Migrating Archived Cases

Information about upgrading or migrating cases that you have archived
in a previous release.

KFF Quick Install Guide and KFF
installation files

For the most current KFF Server and KFF data installation files, as well
as the KFF Quick Install Guide, visit the AccessData Product
Downloads page:
http://www.accessdata.com/support/product-downloads
Expand the Known File Filter (KFF) section and then the KFF Server
section.

Comments?
We value all feedback from our customers. Please contact us at support@accessdata.com, or send
documentation issues to documentation@accessdata.com.

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