iOS analysis using the Sysdiagnose analysis framework workshop - beginners guide — David Durvaux, Christophe Vandeplas

Join us at hack.lu 2025 — Info & Registration

Duration: 120 min

Type: Training

Speakers: David Durvaux, Christophe Vandeplas

Abstract

Are you, or your organisation, concerned about potential compromise on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch? This workshop equips you with the knowledge and tools to identify red flags on your iOS device. We delve into the world of sysdiagnose and explore methods to verify potential breaches.

This is the starter workshop, we invite you to also join the second deeper dive session with deeper analysis.

Description

This is an iteration of the workshop that was given at hack.lu 2024. This edition is now split in two sessions: one introductory session and one deep dive.

Are you, or your organisation, concerned about potential compromise on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch? This workshop introduces you to some knowledge and tools to identify red flags on your iOS device. We delve into the world of sysdiagnose and explore methods to verify potential breaches.

During this workshop we will be:

  • discussing some ways to know if an iOS device may be compromised
  • explore which opensource tools exist to perform analysis
  • generating a sysdiagnose file on an iPhone, iPad iWatch, … (bring your own device)
  • use multiple methods to collect the sysdiagnose (sharing, custom app, PyMobileDevice3, …)
  • use the open source sysdiagnose parser to convert the diagnostics data to something usable
  • explore what data it contains
  • generate a timeline and load it in timesketch or splunk

View on pretalx

On this date I will be not physically in the country anymore.. Is there a way to be done forensic via the network for the ppl who will be not on the event?