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🚨 The artifactcollector is a customizable agent to collect forensic artifacts on any Windows, macOS or Linux system
https://github.com/forensicanalysis/artifactcollector
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🚨 The artifactcollector is a customizable agent to collect forensic artifacts on any Windows, macOS or Linux system
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/forensicanalysis/artifactcollector
- Owner: forensicanalysis
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-01-03T15:16:28.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-10-22T20:00:47.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-02-14T19:31:24.071Z (9 months ago)
- Topics: dfir, digital-forensics, forensicartifacts
- Language: Go
- Homepage: https://forensicanalysis.github.io/documentation/manual/usage/acquisition/
- Size: 4.1 MB
- Stars: 211
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 17
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
artifactcollector
The artifactcollector project provides a software that collects forensic artifacts
on systems. These artifacts can be used in forensic investigations to understand
attacker behavior on compromised computers.
## Features
The artifactcollector offers the following features
- ️🖥️ Runs on 🖼️ Windows, 🐧 Linux and 🍏 macOS
- 🛍️ Can extract files, directories, registry entries, command and WMI output
- ⭐ Uses the configurable and extensible [Forensics Artifacts](https://github.com/forensicanalysis/artifacts)
- 💾 Creates a forensicstore as [structured output](https://github.com/forensicanalysis/forensicstore)
- 🕊️ It's open source
- 🆓 Free for everyone (including commercial use)
### Installation
Download from https://github.com/forensicanalysis/artifactcollector/releases or
```bash
git clone https://github.com/forensicanalysis/artifactcollector
cd artifactcollector
go install .
```
### Get artifacts & process forensicstores
If you want to extract the raw artifacts or process the collected data have a look at
### [🕵️ elementary](https://github.com/forensicanalysis/elementary)
### Build your own artifactcollector
1. Clone the repository: `git clone https://github.com/forensicanalysis/artifactcollector`.
2. Run `go generate` to download all artifacts.
3. Add artifact definition yaml files as needed in `pack/artifacts`. Do not edit the
artifact definitions, as they will be overwritten.
4. Edit `pack/ac.yaml` and add the artifacts you want to collect.
5. Run `go generate`. This might yield some errors or problems in your artifacts.
6. On windows you can move the syso into the root folder (e.g. `cp resources\artifactcollector.syso .`)
to enable the icon for the executable and the UAC popup.
7. Run `go build .` to generates an executable.
### Embed binaries
Binaries can be added to `pack/bin` and than included into the artifactcollector
in the `go generate` step. Additionally a corresponding COMMAND artifact like
the following is required.
```yaml
name: Autoruns
sources:
- type: COMMAND
attributes:
cmd: autorunsc.exe
args: ["-x"]
supported_os: [Windows]
```
Currently the output to stdout and stderr is saved, but generated
files are not collected.
### Cross compilation
Cross compilation is a bit more difficult, as a cross compiler like MinGW is required by CGO.
Example cross compilation for Windows:
```sh
CGO_ENABLED=1 CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc GOOS=windows GOARCH=386 go build .
CGO_ENABLED=1 CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build .
```
## Limitations
- Currently only files that are smaller than 1GB when compressed can be collected. This can be circumvented by [using a zip archive](https://github.com/forensicanalysis/custom-collector#zip-collector) for artifact collection.
## Contact
For feedback, questions and discussions you can use the [Open Source DFIR Slack](https://github.com/open-source-dfir/slack).