#disk-image #file-format #snapshot #body #data-structures #format-agnostic #vmdk

bin+lib exhume_body

Format-agnostic data extraction from disk images and other potential data structures

12 unstable releases (4 breaking)

0.5.3 Mar 3, 2026
0.5.1 Feb 24, 2026
0.3.4 Aug 15, 2025
0.3.3 Jul 13, 2025
0.1.1 Mar 31, 2025

#1956 in Filesystem

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GPL-2.0-or-later

175KB
3.5K SLoC

🧬 Exhume Body

The exhume Body module is part of the exhume toolkit and is allowing you to examine, investigate and abstracting a body of data using different file formats.

The current supported formats are:

  • RAW
  • EWF
  • VMDK
  • AFF
  • AFF4 (Cellebrite/MacQuisition implementation).

VMFSSparse (ESXi snapshots, delta files, linked clones) and full physical disk or partition-wide VMDK volumes are not supported. AFF4 parser still needs improvement to cover more implementations.

📄 Getting started

You can find the full installation and usage guide here: https://www.forensicxlab.com/docs/category/exhume---body

Dependencies

~6–8.5MB
~154K SLoC