Revisiting the APFS Series
Back in 2022 I started the APFS Advent Challenge: a daily run of posts dissecting the on-disk internals of Apple’s file system. Nearly four years...
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APFS Internals
A 27-part deep dive into the Apple File System covering on-disk structures, B-Trees, encryption, and more.
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IDA-MCP Is Now RE-MCP With Ghidra Support
When I started building ida-mcp, the goal was simple: give an LLM headless access to IDA Pro through MCP (Model...
ida-mcp 2.2: From Tool Calls to Analysis Scripts
ida-mcp 2.2.0 is out. This release removes the friction between what the LLM wants to do and what MCP lets...
ida-mcp 2.1: Progressive Tool Discovery, Background Analysis, and Batch Operations
ida-mcp 2.1.0 is out. This release focuses on making the LLM a more efficient analyst: fewer wasted tool calls, less...
Announcing ida-mcp 2.0: A Headless MCP Server for IDA Pro
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets LLMs call external tools, and for reverse engineers the obvious application is connecting an...
A Copy-Paste Bug That Broke PSpice® AES-256 Encryption
PSpice is a SPICE circuit simulator from Cadence Design Systems that encrypts proprietary semiconductor model files to protect vendor IP...
2022 APFS Advent Challenge - Retrospective
As 2022 ends, so does my APFS Advent Challenge. Deciding at the last minute to write this series of blogs...
Fusion Containers
As we discussed in an earlier post, Apple’s Fusion Drives combine the storage capacity of a hard disk drive (HDD)...
Snapshot Metadata
Earlier in this series, we covered how Object Maps facilitate the implementation of point-in-time Snapshots of APFS file systems by...
Decryption
Now that we know how to parse the File System Tree, analyze keybags, and unwrap decryption keys, it’s time to...