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Dirty_White_Hat
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago
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How to read .dropbox.device file?

From discussions here I see that the `.dropbox.device` is used to remember the settings for a particular drive.

I am performing forensics on a recovered USB drive. It has a `.dropbox.device` file on it now. This is obviously evidence that the USB drive was plugged in to a computer running DropBox.

The question is what can I learn from reading this file? It's in an unknown binary format so I need some sort of tool to read it. Is there a developer tool like this that I can get access to?

Things I would want to learn:

  • Were files from the USB uploaded?
  • What DropBox user account accessed this device?

This sort of information would help me to determine if someone has compromised information from this device and who!

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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    4 years ago

    Hi Dirty_White_Hat, currently there isn't any method to format the .dropbox.device file in a readable format for security and privacy purposes.

     

    If you wish, you can suggest this change for others to vote on, so the dev team can look into this in future.

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