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* **/Applications**: The installed apps should be here. All the users will be able to access them.
* **/bin**: Command line binaries
* **/cores**: If exists, it's used to store core dumps
* **/dev**: Everything is treated as a file so you may see hardware devices stored here.
* **/etc**: Configuration files
* **/Library**: A lot of subdirectories and files related to preferences, caches and logs can be found here. A Library folder exists in root and on each user's directory.
* **/private**: Undocumented but a lot of the mentioned folders are symbolic links to the private directory.
* **/sbin**: Essential system binaries (related to administration)
* **/System**: File fo making OS X run. You should find mostly only Apple specific files here (not third party).
* **/tmp**: Files are deleted after 3 days (it's a soft link to /private/tmp)
* **/Users**: Home directory for users.
* **/usr**: Config and system binaries
* **/var**: Log files
* **/Volumes**: The mounted drives will apear here.
* **/.vol**: Running `stat a.txt` you obtain something like `16777223 7545753 -rw-r--r-- 1 username wheel ...` where the first number is the id number of the volume where the file exists and the second one is the inode number. You can access the content of this file through /.vol/ with that information running `cat /.vol/16777223/7545753`
### Applications Folders
* **System applications** are located under `/System/Applications`
* **Installed** applications are usually installed in `/Applications` or in `~/Applications`
* **Application data** can be found in `/Library/Application Support` for the applications running as root and `~/Library/Application Support` for applications running as the user.
* Third-party applications **daemons** that **need to run as root** as usually located in `/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/`
* **Sandboxed** apps are mapped into the `~/Library/Containers` folder. Each app has a folder named according to the application’s bundle ID (`com.apple.Safari`).
* The **kernel** is located in `/System/Library/Kernels/kernel`
* **Apple's kernel extensions** are located in `/System/Library/Extensions`
* **Third-party kernel extensions** are stored in `/Library/Extensions`
On macOS (and iOS) all system shared libraries, like frameworks and dylibs, are **combined into a single file**, called the **dyld shared cache**. This improved performance, since code can be loaded faster.
Similar to the dyld shared cache, the kernel and the kernel extensions are also compiled into a kernel cache, which is loaded at boot time.
In order to extract the libraries from the single file dylib shared cache it was possible to use the binary [dyld\_shared\_cache\_util](https://www.mbsplugins.de/files/dyld\_shared\_cache\_util-dyld-733.8.zip) which might not be working nowadays but you can also use [**dyldextractor**](https://github.com/arandomdev/dyldextractor):
Note that even if `dyld_shared_cache_util` tool doesn't work, you can pass the **shared dyld binary to Hopper** and Hopper will be able to identify all the libraries and let you **select which one** you want to investigate:
In a **folder**, **read** allows to **list it**, **write** allows to **delete** and **write** files on it, and **execute** allows to **traverse** the directory. So, for example, a user with **read permission over a file** inside a directory where he **doesn't have execute** permission **won't be able to read** the file.
### Flag modifiers
There are some flags that could be set in the files that will make file behave differently. You can **check the flags** of the files inside a directory with `ls -lO /path/directory`
* **`uchg`**: Known as **uchange** flag will **prevent any action** changing or deleting the **file**. To set it do: `chflags uchg file.txt`
* The root user could **remove the flag** and modify the file
* **`restricted`**: This flag makes the file be **protected by SIP** (you cannot add this flag to a file).
* **`Sticky bit`**: If a directory with sticky bit, **only** the **directories owner or root can remane or delete** files. Typically this is set on the /tmp directory to prevent ordinary users from deleting or moving other users’ files.
Extended attributes have a name and any desired value, and can be seen using `ls -@` and manipulated using the `xattr` command. Some common extended attributes are:
*`com.apple.resourceFork`: Resource fork compatibility. Also visible as `filename/..namedfork/rsrc`
This is a way to obtain **Alternate Data Streams in MacOS** machines. You can save content inside an extended attribute called **com.apple.ResourceFork** inside a file by saving it in **file/..namedfork/rsrc**.
```bash
echo "Hello" > a.txt
echo "Hello Mac ADS" > a.txt/..namedfork/rsrc
xattr -l a.txt #Read extended attributes
com.apple.ResourceFork: Hello Mac ADS
ls -l a.txt #The file length is still q
-rw-r--r--@ 1 username wheel 6 17 Jul 01:15 a.txt
```
You can **find all the files containing this extended attribute** with:
The extended attribute `com.apple.decmpfs` indicates that the file is stored encrypted, `ls -l` will report a **size of 0** and the compressed data is inside this attribute. Whenever the file is accessed it'll be decrypted in memory.
This attr can be seen with `ls -lO` indicated as compressed because compressed files are also tagged with the flag `UF_COMPRESSED`. If a compressed file is removed this flag with `chflags nocompressed </path/to/file>`, the system won't know that the file was compressed and therefore it won't be able to decompress and access the data (it will think that it's actually empty).
The tool afscexpand can be used to force decompress a dile.
The directory `/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/System` is where information about the **risk associated with different file extensions is stored**. This directory categorizes files into various risk levels, influencing how Safari handles these files upon download. The categories are as follows:
* **LSRiskCategorySafe**: Files in this category are considered **completely safe**. Safari will automatically open these files after they are downloaded.
* **LSRiskCategoryNeutral**: These files come with no warnings and are **not automatically opened** by Safari.
* **LSRiskCategoryUnsafeExecutable**: Files under this category **trigger a warning** indicating that the file is an application. This serves as a security measure to alert the user.
* **LSRiskCategoryMayContainUnsafeExecutable**: This category is for files, such as archives, that might contain an executable. Safari will **trigger a warning** unless it can verify that all contents are safe or neutral.
* **`$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV2`**: Contains information about downloaded files, like the URL from where they were downloaded.
* **`/var/log/system.log`**: Main log of OSX systems. com.apple.syslogd.plist is responsible for the execution of syslogging (you can check if it's disabled looking for "com.apple.syslogd" in `launchctl list`.
* **`/private/var/log/asl/*.asl`**: These are the Apple System Logs which may contain interesting information.
* **`$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist`**: Stores recently accessed files and applications through "Finder".
* **`$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plsit`**: Stores items to launch upon system startup
* **`$HOME/Library/Logs/DiskUtility.log`**: Log file for thee DiskUtility App (info about drives, including USBs)
* **`/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist`**: Data about wireless access points.
* **`/private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist`**: List of daemons deactivated.
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