A CLI for extracting libraries from Apple's dyld shared cache file

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Command-line dyld-shared-cache-extractor
Overview

dyld-shared-cache-extractor

As of macOS Big Sur, instead of shipping the system libraries with macOS, Apple ships a generated cache of all built in dynamic libraries and excludes the originals. This tool allows you to extract these libraries from the cache for reverse engineering.

Usage

Extract the default shared cache to /tmp/libraries:

dyld-shared-cache-extractor /System/Library/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_arm64e /tmp/libraries

Installation

Homebrew:

brew install keith/formulae/dyld-shared-cache-extractor

Manually, after installing rust:

cargo install --locked --path .

More details

There are a few different ways you can interact with these shared caches.

  1. Depending on what you're doing inspecting them in Hopper is the easiest option
  2. For a bit more functionality you can build the dyld_shared_cache_util target from the latest dyld source dump, but this requires some modifications

The problem with the 2 options above is that they can lag behind format changes in the shared cache. This tool loads the private dsc_extractor.bundle from Xcode, meaning it should always be able to extract the shared cache files even from beta OS versions (potentially using a beta Xcode version).

This logic is based on the function at the bottom of dyld3/shared-cache/dsc_extractor.cpp from the dyld source dump.

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Comments
  • macOS Ventura VM shared cache location

    macOS Ventura VM shared cache location

    I'm not sure if this is a permanent change or just a VM detail, but I noticed in my macOS Ventura VM that the shared cache location is actually:

    /System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/System/Library/dyld/...

    There is also:

    /System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/System/DriverKit/System/Library/dyld/

    Which seems to have a smaller subset of libraries potentially used at boot?

    Just filing this in case others are looking for this info

    opened by keith 5
  • Update paths for Ventura

    Update paths for Ventura

    This just puts the Ventura paths front and center and adds a note about the old paths below.

    Fixes https://github.com/keith/dyld-shared-cache-extractor/issues/4

    opened by keith 0
  • Invalid cache magic in file at dyld_shared_cache_arm64

    Invalid cache magic in file at dyld_shared_cache_arm64

    I got this log when run dyld-shared-cache-extractor /Users/andaji/Mine/XiaoMaGe/iOSFramesMachO/dyld_shared_cache_arm64 /Users/andaji/Mine/XiaoMaGe/iOSFramesMachO/aaa

    My Mac version is 12.3.1 with Apple M1 chip and my XCode version is 13.4.1. The dyld_shared_cache_arm64 is load from a iPhone 7 and it iOS version is 12.0.1

    opened by jiwenyi163 1
  • How to get actual objc headers from the dump this tool produces?

    How to get actual objc headers from the dump this tool produces?

    This may be a noob question but I'm lost on how to parse the dump into a human-readable format, specifically into objc header files. As the README suggested, I ran dyld-shared-cache-extractor /System/Library/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_arm64e /tmp/libraries and it works great - gives me an output for all the frameworks I was expecting.

    However when opening the file inside the framework, it appears to be encrypted or obfuscated in some way - the actual headers aren't readable. Is there some method I can use to read them? TIA!

    image

    opened by tneotia 1
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