Tools
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See Also
- Disk Imaging
- Data Recovery (including file carving)
- File Analysis
- Document Metadata Extraction
- Memory Imaging
- Memory Analysis
- Network Forensics
- Logfile Analysis
Disk Analysis Tools
Hard Drive Firmware and Diagnostics Tools
PC-3000 from ACE Lab https://www.acelab.eu.com/catalog/
Linux-based Tools
LINReS by NII Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Second Look: Linux Memory Forensics by Pikewerks Corporation
Macintosh-based Tools
Elcomsoft Mobile Forensic Bundle (EMFB)
EMBF includes Mac OS editions of Elcomsoft forensic tools for mobile and cloud data extraction.
Recon for Mac OS X by Sumuri, LLC
Windows-based Tools
Arsenal Recon Weapons by Arsenal Recon offers unique and powerful tools to mount Windows disk images, reconstruct Windows Registry and process Windows hibernation files.
Belkasoft Acquisition Tool (BAT) is a free utility to acquire a wide range of data sources: hard drives, running computers RAM memory, modern smartphones, and various types of clouds. The output can be analyzed with both Belkasoft and third-party tools.
Belkasoft Evidence Center (BEC) allows an investigator to perform all investigation steps: acquisition (acquire hard and removable drives, image smartphones and download cloud data), extraction of evidence (searches and carves more than 700 formats of various files and applications data), analysis (hex viewer, SQLite viewer, social graph building with communities detection etc) and reporting.
CD/DVD Inspector by InfinaDyne This is the only forensic-qualified tool for examinination of optical media. It has been around since 1999 and is in use by law enforcement, government and data recovery companies worldwide.
EMail Detective - Forensic Software Tool by Hot Pepper Technology, Inc
Elcomsoft Desktop Forensic Bundle
All password recovery tools for unlocking documents, decrypting archives and crypto containers.
Elcomsoft Premium Forensic Bundle
A pack of every forensic tool of Elcomsoft for data extraction from mobile devices, unlocking documents, decrypting archives, breaking into encrypted containers, viewing and analyzing evidence.
Forensic Explorer (FEX) by GetData Forensics
Forensic Toolkit (FTK) by AccessData
ILook Investigator by Elliot Spencer and U.S. Dept of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS)
Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) by Magnet Forensics
Mercury Indexer by MicroForensics, Inc.
Nuix Desktop by Nuix Pty Ltd https://www.nuix.com/
OSForensics by PassMark Software Pty Ltd
P2 Power Pack by Paraben
Safeback by NTI and Armor Forensics
RecycleReader by Live-Forensics
A command line tool that outputs the contents of the recycle bin on XP, Vista and 7.
A command line tool that searches for strings in a given file. It has the ability to compare the output of those strings against a dictionary to either exclude the dictionary terms in the output or only output files that match the dictionary. It also has the ability to search for IP Addresses and URLs/Email Addresses.
A command line tool similar to the Unix uniq. Allows for unique string counts, as well as various sorting options.
HashUtil.exe will calculate MD5, SHA1, SHA256 and SHA512 hashes. It has an option that will attempt to match the hash against the NIST/ISC MD5 hash databases.
WindowsSCOPE Pro, Ultimate, Live Comprehensive Windows Memory Forensics and Cyber Analysis, Incident Response, and Education support.
Software and hardware based acquisition with CaptureGUARD PCIe and ExpressCard
Hardware based acquisition of memory on a locked computer via CaptureGUARD Gateway
WindowsSCOPE Live provides memory analysis of Windows computers on a network from Android phones and tablets.
Forensic & eDiscovery Tool to find digital email evidences from multiple email platform through its powerful Search mechanism.
Open Source Tools
AFFLIB A library for working with disk images. Currently AFFLIB supports raw, AFF, AFD, and EnCase file formats. Work to support segmented raw, iLook, and other formats is ongoing.
Bulk Extractor https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/wiki
Bulk Extractor provides digital media triage by extracting Features from digital media.
Bulk Extractor Viewer is a browser UI for viewing Feature data extracted using Bulk Extractor.
Digital Forensics Framework DFF is cross-platform and open-source, user and developers oriented. It provide many features and is very modular. Our goal is to provide a powerful framework to the forensic community, so people can use only one tool during the analysis. http://digital-forensic.org/
Linux based file carving program
FTimes is a system baselining and evidence collection tool.
Tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted.
Hachoir A generic framework for binary file manipulation, it supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, ext2/ext3, Linux swap, MSDOS partition header, etc. Recognize file type. Able to find subfiles (hachoir-subfile).
A tool for finding previously identified blocks of data in media such as disk images.
An open source software that can be used to process and analyze digital evidence, often seized at crime scenes by law enforcement or in a corporate investigation by private examiners.
The Open Computer Forensics Architecture
Web-based, database-backed forensic and log analysis GUI written in Python.
Linux and Windows file carving program originally based on foremost.
NDA and scoped distribution tools
Enterprise Tools (Proactive Forensics)
LiveWire Investigator 2008 by WetStone Technologies
P2 Enterprise Edition by Paraben
Elcomsoft Premium Forensic Bundle
Forensics Live CDs
Paladin Forensic Suite - Live Boot Ubuntu (Sumuri, LLC) https://sumuri.com
Simplifies various forensics tasks in a forensically sound manner via the PALADIN Toolbox.
See: Forensics Live CDs
Personal Digital Device Tools
GPS Forensics
PDA Forensics
- Cellebrite UFED
- .XRY
- Paraben Device Seizure and Device Seizure Toolbox
Cell Phone Forensics
- Belkasoft Evidence Center
- BitPIM
- Cellebrite UFED
- DataPilot Secure View
- Elcomsoft Mobile Forensic Bundle
- MOBILedit!
- Paraben Device Seizure and Device Seizure Toolbox
- Serial Port Monitoring
- .XRY
SIM Card Forensics
Cellebrite UFED .XRY ForensicSIM Paraben SIM Card Seizure
Preservation Tools
Paraben StrongHold Bag and Tent
Other Tools
The tool to analyze serial port and device activity.
Live View is a graphical forensic tool that creates a VMware virtual machine out of a dd disk image or physical disk.
Serial and USB ports sharing https://www.flexihub.com/serial-to-ethernet-overview/
Share and access serial and USB ports over Ethernet
A free player for VMware virtual machines that will allow them to "play" on either Windows or Linux-based systems.
The free server product, for setting up/configuring/running VMware virtual machine.Important difference being that it can run 'headless', i.e. everything in background.
RECON for Mac OS X is simply the fastest way to conduct Mac Forensics, automates what an experienced examiner would need weeks to accomplish in minutes, now includes PALADIN 6 which comes with a full featured Forensic Suite, bootable forensic imager, a software write-blocker and so much more.
Hex Editors
Okteta KDE's new cross-platform hex editor with features such as signature-matching
HexFiend A hex editor for Mac OS
Hex Workshop A hex editor from BreakPoint Software Inc.
ReclaiMe Pro The built-in disk editor visualizes most known partition and filesystem objects: boot sectors, superblocks, partition headers in structured view. Low-level data editing for extra leverage.
WinHex Computer forensics software, data recovery software, hex editor, and disk editor from X-Ways.
wxHexEditor A Multi-OS supported, open sourced, hex and disk editor.
HexReader Live-Forensics software that reads Windows files at specified offset and length and outputs results to the console.
Telephone Scanners/War Dialers
WarVOX is a free, open-source VOIP-based war dialing tool for exploring, classifying, and auditing phone systems.