Skip to main content

Forensic Toolkits

Forensic Toolkits

Brian Carrier
FREEWARE

The @stake Sleuth Kit (TASK) allows an investigator examine the file systems of a suspect computer in a non-intrusive fashion. TASK is a collection of UNIX-based command line tools that can analyze NTFS, FAT, FFS, EXT2FS, and EXT3FS file systems. TASK rea ...

Guidance Software, Inc.
Commercial

With an intuitive, yet flexible GUI, and unmatched performance, EnCase Version 4 provides investigators with the tools to conduct large-scale and complex investigation with accuracy and efficiency. Our award winning solution yields completely non-invasive ...

The SANS Institute
Open Source

The SANS SIFT Workstation is a VMware Appliance that is pre-configured with all the necessary tools to perform a detailed digital forensic examination. It is compatible with Expert Witness Format (E01), Advanced Forensic Format (AFF), and raw (dd) evidenc ...

Tobias Klauser and Daniel Borkmann
Open Source

netsniff-ng is a free, performant linux network analyzer and networking toolkit. If you will, the Swiss army knife for network packets. The gain of performance is reached by built-in zero-copy mechanisms, so that on packet reception and transmission the ...

Lenny Zeltser
Open Source

REMnux™ is a free Linux toolkit for assisting malware analysts with reverse-engineering malicious software. It strives to make it easier for forensic investigators and incident responders to start using the variety of freely-available tools that can exami ...

REMnux
Oxygen Forensics
Commercial

Oxygen Forensic® Passware® Analyst is a brand-new and tightly integrated combination of two award-winning forensic tools in a single acquisition and analysis suite. The new product enables straightforward mobile acquisition, extraction, decryption and an ...

Oxygen Forensics Passware Analyst
Belkasoft
Commercial

Belkasoft X (Belkasoft Evidence Center X) is a flagship tool by Belkasoft for computer, mobile and cloud forensics. It can help you to acquire and analyze a wide range of mobile devices, run various analytical tasks, perform case-wide searches, bookm ...

Belkasoft Evidence Center X
Elcomsoft Co. Ltd
Commercial

Perform full file system and logical acquisition of iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. Image device file system, extract device secrets (passwords, encryption keys and protected data) and decrypt the file system image.   Features and Benefits: ...

iOS Forensic Toolkit
Berla
Commercial

The iVe Ecosystem is a collection of tools that supports investigators throughout the entire vehicle forensics process with a mobile application for identifying vehicles, a hardware kit for acquiring systems, and forensic software for analyzing data. &nb ...

iVE Ecosystem - Vehicle Forensics
Cellebrite
Commercial

Lawfully access locked devices with easeBypass pattern, password or PIN locks and overcome encryption challenges quickly on popular Android and iOS devices Support for the broadest range of devicesCollect data from mobile phones, drones, SIM Cards, SD ca ...

Cellebrite UFED
Open Source
Open Source

CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is an Italian GNU/Linux live distribution created as a project of Digital Forensics CAINE offers a complete forensic environment that is organized to integrate existing software tools as software modules ...

ASR Data
Commercial

SMART is a software utility that has been designed and optimized to support data forensic practitioners and Information Security personnel in pursuit of their respective duties and goals. The SMART software and methodology have been developed with th ...

Klaus Knopper
GPL

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue syste ...

droopy and ranger-x
Open Source

PLAC is a business card sized bootable cdrom running linux. It has network auditing, disk recovery, and forensic analysis tools. ISO will be avialable and scripts to roll you own cd.

Dave Bullock
Freeware

snarl is a bootable forensics ISO based on FreeBSD and using @stake's autopsy and task as well as scmoo's list of known good checksums. Once you boot the iso just log in as root there is no password. You will boot into a dialog driven menu. select the fir ...

Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema
OPEN SOURCE

TCT is a collection of programs by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema for a post-mortem analysis of a UNIX system after break-in. The software was presented first in a Computer Forensics Analysis class in August 1999 (handouts can be found here). Examples of us ...

Exterro
Commercial

FTK is a digital investigations solution built for speed, stability and ease of use. It quickly locates evidence and forensically collects and analyzes any digital device or system producing, transmitting or storingdata by using a single application from ...

FTK Forensic Toolkit