Clark Flores
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Some Free and Open-Source DFIR Tools

This post is just a tool reference collated in one post.

Disk Forensics:

  • Autopsy (with TSK and Sleuth Kit)
  • The Sleuth Kit
  • Bulk Extractor
  • Scalpel
  • AFFLIB

Memory Forensics:

  • Volatility
  • Volatility plugins
  • Magnet RAM Capture
  • Memoryze

Mobile Device Forensics:

  • Autopsy (with TSK and Sleuth Kit)
  • AFLogical
  • XRY (XAMN open)

Network Forensics:

  • Wireshark
  • Bro/Zeek
  • NetworkMiner
  • RouterSploit

Incident Response and Live Forensics:

  • Autopsy (with TSK and Sleuth Kit)
  • GRR Rapid Response
  • OSSEC
  • Memoryze
  • IRIS

Log Analysis:

  • Autopsy (with TSK and Sleuth Kit)
  • Log2timeline
  • Splunk
  • ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Forensic Imaging:

  • Autopsy (with TSK and Sleuth Kit)
  • Guymager

Steganography Analysis:

  • OpenStego
  • StegHide
  • OutGuess

Registry Analysis:

  • RegRipper
  • Regipy

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT):

  • OSINT Framework

File Integrity Verification and Hashing:

  • Hashdeep
  • ExifTool

Further research

Tools mentioned above and (other tools that will be discovered in the future) will be the subject of this blog. For research purposes!