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iOS/macOS Research Swiss Army Knife

ipsw

iOS/macOS Research Swiss Army Knife

What is ipsw 🤔

• IPSW downloader/exploder
• OTA downloader/exploder
• macho parser
• ObjC class-dump
• Swift class-dump 🚧
• dyld_shared_cache parser
• kernelcache parser
• img4 parser/decrypter
• device-tree parser
• ARM v9-a disassember
• research tool

Install

macOS

brew install blacktop/tap/ipsw

Linux

sudo snap install ipsw

Windows

scoop bucket add blacktop https://github.com/blacktop/scoop-bucket.git 
scoop install blacktop/ipsw

Getting Started

❯ ipsw

Download and Parse IPSWs (and SO much more)

Usage:
  ipsw [command]

Available Commands:
  device-list     List all iOS devices
  download        Download Apple Firmware files (and more)
  dtree           Parse DeviceTree
  dyld            Parse dyld_shared_cache
  ent             Search IPSW filesystem DMG for MachOs with a given entitlement
  extract         Extract kernelcache, dyld_shared_cache or DeviceTree from IPSW/OTA
  help            Help about any command
  iboot           Dump firmwares
  idev            USB connected device commands
  img4            Parse Img4
  info            Display IPSW/OTA Info
  kernel          Parse kernelcache
  macho           Parse MachO
  mdevs           List all MobileDevices in IPSW
  mount           Mount DMG from IPSW
  ota             Parse OTAs
  sepfw           Dump MachOs
  shsh            Get shsh blobs from device
  symbolicate     Symbolicate ARM 64-bit crash logs (similar to Apple's symbolicatecrash)
  update          Download an ipsw update if one exists
  version         Print the version number of ipsw

Flags:
      --color           colorize output
      --config string   config file (default is $HOME/.ipsw.yaml)
  -h, --help            help for ipsw
  -V, --verbose         verbose output

Use "ipsw [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Documentation

• https://blacktop.github.io/ipsw

graph TD
A[Download] --> B[Extract]
B --> C[Parse]
C --> D[Dump]
D --> E[Search]
E --> F[Symbolicate]

Community

You have questions, need support and or just want to talk about ipsw?

Here are ways to get in touch with the ipsw community:

Credit

Big shout out to Jonathan Levin's amazing books and his legendary jtool

License

MIT Copyright (c) 2018-2023 blacktop