TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Additional Multimedia Carvers
  • Which Multimedia Carvers are included?
  • How to add Custom Carvers in FTK?
    • From the Case-List
    • From within a Case

Additional Multimedia Carvers

With the release of FTK 7.5.2, additional multimedia carvers have been created (Existing carvers below have been rewritten). These additional custom carvers can be imported using FTK. Custom carvers can be used during case creation pre-processing and additional analysis. 

You can download these additional multimedia carvers at the bottom of this article.

Which Multimedia Carvers are included?

How to add Custom Carvers in FTK?

From the Case-List

1. Login to FTK.
2. Within the case-list, click Manage.
3. Click Carvers to open the Manage Shared Custom Carvers menu.
4. Click Import.
5. Click on a custom carver file (.XML) or multiple.
6. Click Open.
7. Click Close.

From within a Case

1. Click Manage.
2. Click Carvers.
3. Click Manage Carvers (Non-admin users) or Manage Shared Carvers.
4. Click Import.
5. Click on a custom carver file (.XML) or multiple.
6. Click Open.
7. Click Close.

Disclaimer:

The Custom Carver files available have been reviewed by Exterro for basic functionality ONLY. Since every investigation varies, we cannot guarantee that these Custom Carvers will recover all of the data files you are targeting. Exterro recommends that you review the Custom Carver files intended output prior to using it in a case or relying on it as the basis for any professional opinion.

While described behaviour has been found to be consistent, different platforms or software versions may produce different results.