Accessor
Access the file using the best accessor possible.
The auto
accessor is the default accessor that is used when a VQL
query does not specify an accessor
parameter.
On Windows it attempts to open the file using the file
accessor and
if that fails (for example due to permission errors), the auto
accessor automatically tries the ntfs
accessor to access the file
using raw level filesystem parsing.
The overall effect is that the Velociraptor is able to transparently
access files that are locked (for example registry hives) or are
protected by filter drivers (e.g. some endpoint security software). In
general you should use the auto
accessor to open files on the local
filesystem in all cases since it will be much faster than using the
ntfs
accessor for every file (most files are not actually locked).
On other operating systems, the auto
accessor is an alias to the
file
accessor.