Forensic Analysis of Nintendo Switch

Modern gaming consoles contain highly critical forensic evidence within proprietary non-volatile memory structures. Standard forensic acquisition interfaces are frequently omitted entirely from these encrypted hardware environments. A forensically sound data acquisition workflow was specifically developed for the Nintendo Switch console. A hardware-based Tegra processor vulnerability was exploited to physically bypass the secure boot chain. Custom bootloader payloads were injected to acquire the raw internal NAND memory bit-stream. These encrypted virtual volumes were subsequently reassembled and completely decrypted utilizing the NxNandManager software.