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Forensic Tools

Forensic Tools

 These are tools for analyzing a breach in security in some way.  Typically they are used for collecting data about the breach after the fact, or analyzing software to see how it performs the attack.  Many reverse engineering tools will be listed here, as well as forensic recovery tools.

 

Other information about Forensic Tools

 

Yago Jesus and Patrick Gouin

Unhide is a forensic tool to find hidden processes and TCP/UDP ports by rootkits / LKMs or by another hidden technique. // Unhide (ps) Detecting hidden processes. Implements six techniques * Compare /proc vs /bin/ps output * Compare inf ...

AIR is a GUI front-end to dd/dc3dd designed for easily creating forensic images. by Steve Gibson and Nanni Bassetti Features: * auto-detection of IDE and SCSI drives, CD-ROMs, and tape drives * choice of using either dd or dc3dd (Note: dc3d ...

Kristinn Gudjonsson

log2timeline is a framework for automatic creation of a super timeline. The main purpose is to provide a single tool to parse various log files and artifacts found on suspect systems (and supporting systems, such as network equipment) and produce a timeli ...

Golden G. Richard III

Scalpel is a fast file carver that reads a database of header and footer definitions and extracts matching files from a set of image files or raw device files. Scalpel is filesystem-independent and will carve files from FATx, NTFS, ext2/3, or raw partitio ...

Rifiuti2 analyses recycle bin files from Windows. Rifiuti2 can extract file deletion time, original path and size of deleted files. For more ancient versions of Windows, it can also check whether deleted items were not in recycle bin anymore (that is, eit ...

Rifiuti2
Brian Carrier

Autopsy is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It is used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recov ...

Autopsy