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awesome-forensics

⭐️ A curated list of awesome forensic analysis tools and resources
https://github.com/Cugu/awesome-forensics

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  • Collections

  • Learn Forensics

  • Resources

  • Tools

    • Acquisition

      • Belkasoft RAM Capturer - Volatile Memory Acquisition Tool
      • CrowdResponse - A static host data collection tool by CrowdStrike
      • DFIR ORC - Forensics artefact collection tool for systems running Microsoft Windows
      • FireEye Memoryze - A free memory forensic software
      • WinTriage - Wintriage is a live response tool that extracts Windows artifacts. It must be executed with local or domain administrator privileges and recommended to be done from an external drive.
      • Magnet RAM Capture / DumpIt - A free imaging tool designed to capture the physical memory
      • Acquire - Acquire is a tool to quickly gather forensic artifacts from disk images or a live system into a lightweight container
      • artifactcollector - A customizable agent to collect forensic artifacts on any Windows, macOS or Linux system
      • ArtifactExtractor - Extract common Windows artifacts from source images and VSCs
      • AVML - A portable volatile memory acquisition tool for Linux
      • FastIR Collector - Collect artifacts on windows
      • FIT - Forensic acquisition of web pages, emails, social media, etc.
      • ForensicMiner - A PowerShell-based DFIR automation tool, for artifact and evidence collection on Windows machines.
      • LiME - Loadable Kernel Module (LKM), which allows the acquisition of volatile memory from Linux and Linux-based devices, formerly called DMD
      • SPECTR3 - Acquire, triage and investigate remote evidence via portable iSCSI readonly access
      • unix_collector - A live forensic collection script for UNIX-like systems as a single script.
      • Velociraptor - Velociraptor is a tool for collecting host based state information using Velocidex Query Language (VQL) queries
      • ALEX - Extract files from ADB devices on Windows, Linux and MacOS. Mostly a wrapper for adbutils.
      • TriageHasher - A flexible hashing tool designed for triage collections on Windows, Linux and MacOS. Only hash files with a given extension and location.
      • UFADE - Extract files from iOS devices on Linux and MacOS. Mostly a wrapper for pymobiledevice3. Creates iTunes-style backups and advanced logical backups.
      • Hashment - Python forensic tool to analyze, dump, and recover deleted files from YAFFS2 partitions.
      • LiME - Loadable Kernel Module (LKM), which allows the acquisition of volatile memory from Linux and Linux-based devices, formerly called DMD
      • Fuji - MacOS forensic acquisition made simple. It creates full file system copies or targeted collection of Mac computers.
      • Hypoxia - Cross-platform CLI tool for targeted file collection with SHA-256 manifest, chain-of-custody log, and checkpoint/resume support.

    • Carving

      • photorec - File carving tool
      • bstrings - Improved strings utility
      • bulk_extractor - Extracts information such as email addresses, creditcard numbers and histrograms from disk images
      • floss - Static analysis tool to automatically deobfuscate strings from malware binaries
      • swap_digger - A bash script used to automate Linux swap analysis, automating swap extraction and searches for Linux user credentials, Web form credentials, Web form emails, etc.

    • Decryption

    • Disk image handling

      • xmount - Convert between different disk image formats
      • Disk Arbitrator - A Mac OS X forensic utility designed to help the user ensure correct forensic procedures are followed during imaging of a disk device
      • imagemounter - Command line utility and Python package to ease the (un)mounting of forensic disk images
      • libewf - Libewf is a library and some tools to access the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF, E01)
      • PancakeViewer - Disk image viewer based in dfvfs, similar to the FTK Imager viewer

    • Distributions

    • Docker Forensics

    • Frameworks

      • Autopsy - SleuthKit GUI
      • dexter - Dexter is a forensics acquisition framework designed to be extensible and secure
      • dff - Forensic framework
      • Dissect - Dissect is a digital forensics & incident response framework and toolset that allows you to quickly access and analyse forensic artefacts from various disk and file formats, developed by Fox-IT (part of NCC Group).
      • hashlookup-forensic-analyser - A tool to analyse files from a forensic acquisition to find known/unknown hashes from [hashlookup](https://www.circl.lu/services/hashlookup/) API or using a local Bloom filter.
      • IntelMQ - IntelMQ collects and processes security feeds
      • Kuiper - Digital Investigation Platform
      • Laika BOSS - Laika is an object scanner and intrusion detection system
      • PowerForensics - PowerForensics is a framework for live disk forensic analysis
      • TAPIR - TAPIR (Trustable Artifacts Parser for Incident Response) is a multi-user, client/server, incident response framework
      • The Sleuth Kit - Tools for low level forensic analysis
      • turbinia - Turbinia is an open-source framework for deploying, managing, and running forensic workloads on cloud platforms
      • IPED - Indexador e Processador de Evidências Digitais - Brazilian Federal Police Tool for Forensic Investigations
      • Wombat Forensics - Forensic GUI tool
      • Autopsy - SleuthKit GUI
      • OpenRelik - Forensic platform to store file artifacts and run workflows
      • AIFT - AIFT (AI Forensic Triage) parses evidence using dissect and generates AI-assisted forensic reports.

    • Imaging

      • dcfldd - Different improved version of dd (this version has some bugs!, another version is on github [adulau/dcfldd](https://github.com/adulau/dcfldd))
      • dcfldd - Different improved version of dd (this version has some bugs!, another version is on github [adulau/dcfldd](https://github.com/adulau/dcfldd))
      • FTK Imager - Free imaging tool for windows
      • Guymager - Open source version for disk imaging on linux systems
      • dc3dd - Improved version of dd
      • 4n6pi - Forensic disk imager, designed to run on a Raspberry Pi, powered by libewf
      • acquirepi - Successor to 4n6pi, scalable forensic disk imager, designed to run on a Raspberry Pi, powered by libewf

    • Internet Artifacts

      • ChromeCacheView - A small utility that reads the cache folder of Google Chrome Web browser, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache
      • chrome-url-dumper - Dump all local stored infromation collected by Chrome
      • hindsight - Internet history forensics for Google Chrome/Chromium
      • IE10Analyzer - This tool can parse normal records and recover deleted records in WebCacheV01.dat.
      • unfurl - Extract and visualize data from URLs
      • WinSearchDBAnalyzer - This tool can parse normal records and recover deleted records in Windows.edb.
      • Wayback-Archive - Download complete websites from the Wayback Machine with full asset preservation for offline viewing.
      • hindsight - Internet history forensics for Google Chrome/Chromium
      • unfurl - Extract and visualize data from URLs

    • IOC Scanner

      • Redline - Free endpoint security tool from FireEye
      • THOR Lite - Free IOC and YARA Scanner
      • Fastfinder - Fast customisable cross-platform suspicious file finder. Supports md5/sha1/sha256 hashes, literal/wildcard strings, regular expressions and YARA rules
      • Fenrir - Simple Bash IOC Scanner
      • Loki - Simple IOC and Incident Response Scanner
      • recon - Performance oriented file finder with support for SQL querying, index and analyze file metadata with support for YARA.

    • Live Forensics

      • grr - GRR Rapid Response: remote live forensics for incident response
      • Linux Expl0rer - Easy-to-use live forensics toolbox for Linux endpoints written in Python & Flask
      • mig - Distributed & real time digital forensics at the speed of the cloud
      • osquery - SQL powered operating system analytics
      • POFR - The Penguin OS Flight Recorder collects, stores and organizes for further analysis process execution, file access and network/socket endpoint data from the Linux Operating System.
      • UAC - UAC (Unix-like Artifacts Collector) is a Live Response collection script for Incident Response that makes use of native binaries and tools to automate the collection of AIX, Android, ESXi, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, NetScaler, OpenBSD and Solaris systems artifacts.
      • InnerWarden - Security agent with built-in forensic capture (process state, network connections, memory maps, hidden process detection via direct /proc reads)

    • Management

      • Catalyst - Catalyst is an open source security automation and ticket system
      • dfirtrack - Digital Forensics and Incident Response Tracking application, track systems
      • Incidents - Web application for organizing non-trivial security investigations. Built on the idea that incidents are trees of tickets, where some tickets are leads
      • iris - Collaborative Incident Response platform

    • Memory Forensics

      • inVtero.net - High speed memory analysis framework
      • KeeFarce - Extract KeePass passwords from memory
      • MemProcFS - An easy and convenient way of accessing physical memory as files a virtual file system.
      • Rekall - Memory Forensic Framework
      • volatility - The memory forensic framework
      • VolUtility - Web App for Volatility framework

    • Metadata Forensics

      • ExifTool
      • EXIF Editor - In-browser, privacy first EXIF Viewer/Editor/Analysis tool (Zero Sign Up). Home to the The EXIF Guide, and The EXIF Quiz.
      • FOCA - FOCA is a tool used mainly to find metadata and hidden information in the documents
      • Metagoofil - Metadata harvester for extracting metadata from public documents
      • mat2 - Metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats
      • oletools - Tools to analyze Microsoft OLE2 files and MS Office documents for malware analysis and forensics
      • pdf-parser - Parse and analyze PDF files to extract metadata and identify malicious content
      • questio - Forensic PDF auditor CLI that detects edited or tampered PDFs via font session tracking, revision history mapping, and producer metadata analysis. Local-first, no uploads.

    • Mobile Forensics

      • ArtEx - Artifact Examiner for iOS Full File System extractions
      • Andriller - A software utility with a collection of forensic tools for smartphones
      • ALEAPP - An Android Logs Events and Protobuf Parser
      • iLEAPP - An iOS Logs, Events, And Plists Parser
      • iOS Frequent Locations Dumper - Dump the contents of the StateModel#.archive files located in /private/var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.routined/
      • MEAT - Perform different kinds of acquisitions on iOS devices
      • MobSF - An automated, all-in-one mobile application (Android/iOS/Windows) pen-testing, malware analysis and security assessment framework capable of performing static and dynamic analysis.
      • OpenBackupExtractor - An app for extracting data from iPhone and iPad backups.

    • Network Forensics

      • Squey - Logs/PCAP visualization software designed to detect anomalies and weak signals in large amounts of data.
      • WireShark - A network protocol analyzer
      • Kismet - A passive wireless sniffer
      • NetworkMiner - Network Forensic Analysis Tool
      • RustNet - A cross-platform network monitoring terminal UI providing real-time visibility into network connections
      • Squey - Logs/PCAP visualization software designed to detect anomalies and weak signals in large amounts of data.

    • OS X Forensics

    • Picture Analysis

      • Ghiro - A fully automated tool designed to run forensics analysis over a massive amount of images
      • Ghiro - A fully automated tool designed to run forensics analysis over a massive amount of images
      • sherloq - An open-source digital photographic image forensic toolset

    • Steganography

      • Sonicvisualizer
      • Steghide - is a steganography program that hides data in various kinds of image and audio files
      • Wavsteg - is a steganography program that hides data in various kinds of image and audio files
      • Zsteg - Detect steganography hidden in PNG and BMP files

    • Timeline Analysis

      • Timeline Explorer - Timeline Analysis tool for CSV and Excel files. Built for SANS FOR508 students
      • DFTimewolf - Framework for orchestrating forensic collection, processing and data export using GRR and Rekall
      • plaso - Extract timestamps from various files and aggregate them
      • timeliner - A rewrite of mactime, a bodyfile reader
      • timesketch - Collaborative forensic timeline analysis

    • Windows Artifacts

      • FRED - Cross-platform microsoft registry hive editor
      • LastActivityView - LastActivityView by Nirsoftis a tool for Windows operating system that collects information from various sources on a running system, and displays a log of actions made by the user and events occurred on this computer.
      • MFT-Parsers - Comparison of MFT-Parsers
      • MFTEcmd - MFT Parser by Eric Zimmerman
      • Beagle - Transform data sources and logs into graphs
      • Blauhaunt - A tool collection for filtering and visualizing logon events
      • Hayabusa - A sigma-based threat hunting and fast forensics timeline generator for Windows event logs.
Programming Languages
Python 53 C++ 9 Go 8 Shell 7 JavaScript 6 C# 5 Rust 5 C 4 Perl 3 Ruby 2
Categories
Tools 163 Resources 24 Learn Forensics 14 Related Awesome Lists 12 Collections 3
Sub Categories
Acquisition 24 Windows Artifacts 21 Frameworks 17 Labs 13 CTFs and Challenges 11 Internet Artifacts 9 Mobile Forensics 8 Metadata Forensics 8 OS X Forensics 7 Live Forensics 7 Imaging 7 Steganography 7 Blogs 6 IOC Scanner 6 Memory Forensics 6 Network Forensics 6 Timeline Analysis 5 Carving 5 Distributions 5 Disk image handling 5 Books 5 Web 4 File System Corpora 4 Other 4 Management 4 Picture Analysis 3 Docker Forensics 2 Decryption 2
Keywords
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