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It provides a wide spectrum of forensic capabilities in a cross-platform standalone binary.\n\n## Features\n* [x] Restricted read-only access\n* [x] [Bidirectional character](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42574) detection\n* [x] String carving and automatic classification\n* [x] With 290+ classes in [Hashcat](https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes) notation\n* [x] Parse Fortinet binary firewall logs\n* [x] Parse Active Directory and other [EDB](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/extensible-storage-engine/extensible-storage-engine) files \n* [x] Parse [NTFS MFT](https://ntfs.com/ntfs-mft.htm), LNK, PF, PST binary files\n* [x] Parse [Linux ELF](https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/elf/elf.pdf) and [Windows PE/COFF](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-format) executables\n* [x] Extract [Active Directory](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/windows-security/ntlm-user-authentication) hashes, users, groups, computers  \n* [x] Lookup NTLM hashes using 210000+ entry wordlists\n* [x] Lookup URLs, IPs, domains and files via the [VirusTotal API](https://www.virustotal.com/)\n* [x] Integral `grep`, `head`, `tail`, `uniq`, `wc`, `hexdump` like abilities\n* [x] Integral syntax highlighting for many different formats\n* [x] Integral fast [Shannon entropy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)) calculation\n* [x] Integral *Chain-of-Custody* receipt generation\n* [x] Support of path globbing and file streams\n* [x] Support of encrypted `7z`, `Rar`, `Zip` archives\n* [x] Many popular archive and compression formats\n* [x] Many popular cryptographic, image, fuzzy and fast hashes\n* [x] With [man pages](assets/man) for every command\n* [x] Advanced [Hunt](assets/man/fox-hunt.md) command\n  * [x] Built-in log carving of [Linux Journals](https://systemd.io/JOURNAL_FILE_FORMAT/) and [Windows Event Logs](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/eventlog/event-log-file-format)\n  * [x] Built-in super timeline in [Common Event Format](https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/arcsight/arcsight-smartconnectors-8.3/cef-implementation-standard/Content/CEF/Chapter%201%20What%20is%20CEF.htm)\n  * [x] Built-in translation of 51600+ event ids\n  * [x] Built-in warning of critical system events\n  * [x] Filter events with [Sigma Rules](https://sigmahq.io/) syntax\n  * [x] Filter anomalies using [Levenshtein distance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance)\n  * [x] Stream events in [Splunk](https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/leverage-rest-apis/rest-api-reference/10.0/input-endpoints/input-endpoint-descriptions) or [Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/ecs) format\n  * [x] Stream events using HTTPS or MQTT protocol\n  * [x] Save as `JSON`, `JSON Lines` or `Parquet` \n\n## Install\nInstall the development version directly via `go`:\n\n```console\ngo install go.foxforensics.dev/fox/v4@latest\n```\n\nStandalone binaries and packages are available for:\n\n|   OS    | Binaries                                                                                                                                                                       | Packages                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |\n|:-------:|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n|  Linux  | [amd](https://foxforensics.dev/fox/releases/latest/download/fox_linux_amd64.tar.gz) \\| [arm](https://foxforensics.dev/fox/releases/latest/download/fox_linux_arm64.tar.gz)     | [apk](https://foxforensics.dev/fox/releases/latest/download/fox_linux_amd64.apk) \\| [deb](https://foxforensics.dev/fox/releases/latest/download/fox_linux_amd64.deb) \\| [pkg](https://foxforensics.dev/fox/releases/latest/download/fox_linux_amd64.pkg.tar.zst) \\| [rpm](https://foxforensics.dev/fox/releases/latest/download/fox_linux_amd64.rpm)      |\n|  macOs  | [amd](https://foxforensics.dev/fox/releases/latest/download/fox_darwin_amd64.tar.gz) \\| [arm](https://foxforensics.dev/fox/releases/latest/download/fox_darwin_arm64.tar.gz)   | `brew install foxforensics/fox/fox`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |\n| Windows | [amd](https://foxforensics.dev/fox/releases/latest/download/fox_windows_amd64.zip) \\| [arm](https://foxforensics.dev/fox/releases/latest/download/fox_windows_arm64.zip)       | Binaries are UPX compressed                                                                                                                                                            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