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Log Analysis Tools

Chainsawstars1.1k - Chainsaw provides a powerful ‘first-response’ capability to quickly identify threats within Windows event logs.

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Books

Crafting the InfoSec Playbook: Security Monitoring and Incident Response Master Plan - by Jeff Bollinger, Brandon Enright and Matthew Valites.

Digital Forensics and Incident Response: Incident response techniques and procedures to respond to modern cyber threats - by Gerard Johansen.

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All-In-One Tools

• IRISstars323 - IRIS is a web collaborative platform for incident response analysts allowing to share investigations at a technical level.

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Incident Management

Catalyststars41 - A free SOAR system that helps to automate alert handling and incident response processes.

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Memory Analysis Tools

Orochistars109 - Orochi is an open source framework for collaborative forensic memory dump analysis.

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Other Lists

Awesome Event IDsstars236 - Collection of Event ID resources useful for Digital Forensics and Incident Response.

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OSX Evidence Collection

The ESF Playground - A tool to view the events in Apple Endpoint Security Framework (ESF) in real time.

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All-In-One Tools

Fleetdmstars601 - State of the art host monitoring platform tailored for security experts. Leveraging Facebook's battle-tested osquery project, Fleetdm delivers continuous updates, features and fast answers to big questions.

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Evidence Collection

UACstars144 - UAC (Unix-like Artifacts Collector) is a Live Response collection tool for Incident Response that makes use of built-in tools to automate the collection of Unix-like systems artifacts. Supported systems: AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, Netscaler, OpenBSD and Solaris.

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Other Tools

traceroute-circlstars36 - Extended traceroute to support the activities of CSIRT (or CERT) operators. Usually CSIRT team have to handle incidents based on IP addresses received. Created by Computer Emergency Response Center Luxembourg.

MFT Browserstars186 - MFT directory tree reconstruction & record info.

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Playbooks

IR Workflow Gallery - Different generic incident response workflows, e.g. for malware outbreak, data theft, unauthorized access,... Every workflow consists of seven steps: prepare, detect, analyze, contain, eradicate, recover, post-incident handling. The workflows are online available or for download.

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Windows Evidence Collection

KAPE - Kroll Artifact Parser and Extractor (KAPE) by Eric Zimmerman. A triage tool that finds the most prevalent digital artifacts and then parses them quickly. Great and thorough when time is of the essence.

LOKIstars2.3k - Free IR scanner for scanning endpoint with yara rules and other indicators(IOCs).

DFIR ORC - DFIR ORC is a collection of specialized tools dedicated to reliably parse and collect critical artifacts such as the MFT, registry hives or event logs. DFIR ORC collects data, but does not analyze it: it is not meant to triage machines. It provides a forensically relevant snapshot of machines running Microsoft Windows. The code can be found on GitHubstars235.

FastIR Collectorstars467 - Tool that collects different artifacts on live Windows systems and records the results in csv files. With the analyses of these artifacts, an early compromise can be detected.

MEERKATstars318 - PowerShell-based triage and threat hunting for Windows.

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Adversary Emulation

Atomic Red Team (ART)stars5.5k - Small and highly portable detection tests mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework.

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Books

Introduction to DFIR - By Scott J. Roberts.

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Communities

Digital Forensics Discord Server - Community of 8,000+ working professionals from Law Enforcement, Private Sector, and Forensic Vendors. Additionally, plenty of students and hobbyists! Guide here.

SANS DFIR mailing list - Mailing list by SANS for DFIR.

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Linux Distributions

PALADIN - Modified Linux distribution to perform various forensics task in a forensically sound manner. It comes with many open source forensics tools included.

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Linux Evidence Collection

FastIR Collector Linuxstars147 - FastIR for Linux collects different artifacts on live Linux and records the results in CSV files.

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Log Analysis Tools

Log Parser Lizard - Execute SQL queries against structured log data: server logs, Windows Events, file system, Active Directory, log4net logs, comma/tab separated text, XML or JSON files. Also provides a GUI to Microsoft LogParser 2.2 with powerful UI elements: syntax editor, data grid, chart, pivot table, dashboard, query manager and more.

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Memory Imaging Tools

OSForensics - Tool to acquire live memory on 32-bit and 64-bit systems. A dump of an individual process’s memory space or physical memory dump can be done.

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Other Tools

Kansastars1.2k - Modular incident response framework in PowerShell.

Muninstars621 - Online hash checker for VirusTotal and other services.

PyaraScannerstars20 - Very simple multi-threaded many-rules to many-files YARA scanning Python script for malware zoos and IR.

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Sandboxing/Reversing Tools

Metadefender Cloud - Free threat intelligence platform providing multiscanning, data sanitization and vulnerability assessment of files.

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Incident Management

DFTimewolfstars176 - A framework for orchestrating forensic collection, processing and data export.

Shufflestars652 - A general purpose security automation platform focused on accessibility.

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Other Tools

Raccinestars772 - A Simple Ransomware Protection

sysmon-configstars3.3k - Sysmon configuration file template with default high-quality event tracing

sysmon-modularstars1.7k - A repository of sysmon configuration modules

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Books

Intelligence-Driven Incident Response - By Scott J. Roberts, Rebekah Brown.

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Log Analysis Tools

Event Log Observer - View, analyze and monitor events recorded in Microsoft Windows event logs with this GUI tool.

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Playbooks

AWS Incident Response Runbook Samples - AWS IR Runbook Samples meant to be customized per each entity using them. The three samples are: "DoS or DDoS attack", "credential leakage", and "unintended access to an Amazon S3 bucket".

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All-In-One Tools

Flarestars3.3k - A fully customizable, Windows-based security distribution for malware analysis, incident response, penetration testing.

Kuiperstars395 - Digital Forensics Investigation Platform

Velociraptorstars1.1k - Endpoint visibility and collection tool

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Evidence Collection

artifactcollectorstars94 - The artifactcollector project provides a software that collects forensic artifacts on systems.

Forensic Artifactsstars670 - Digital Forensics Artifact Repository

Live Response Collection - Automated tool that collects volatile data from Windows, OSX, and *nix based operating systems.

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Knowledge Bases

Digital Forensics Artifact Knowledge Basestars28 - Digital Forensics Artifact Knowledge Base

Windows Events Attack Samplesstars1.6k - Windows Events Attack Samples

Windows Registry Knowledge Basestars80 - Windows Registry Knowledge Base

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Log Analysis Tools

LogonTracerstars1.9k - Tool to investigate malicious Windows logon by visualizing and analyzing Windows event log.

Sigmastars4.5k - Generic signature format for SIEM systems already containing an extensive ruleset.

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Memory Analysis Tools

Volatility 3stars754 - The volatile memory extraction framework (successor of Volatility)

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Other Lists

Awesome Forensicsstars1.8k - A curated list of awesome forensic analysis tools and resources.

Didier Stevens Suitestars1.1k - Tool collection

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Playbooks

ThreatHunter-Playbookstars2.9k - Playbook to aid the development of techniques and hypothesis for hunting campaigns.

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Sandboxing/Reversing Tools

Ghidrastars30.9k - Software Reverse Engineering Framework.

Rizinstars1.2k - UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

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Scanner Tools

Fenrirstars413 - Simple IOC scanner. It allows scanning any Linux/Unix/OSX system for IOCs in plain bash. Created by the creators of THOR and LOKI.

LOKIstars2.3k - Free IR scanner for scanning endpoint with yara rules and other indicators(IOCs).

Spyrestars111 - Simple YARA-based IOC scanner written in Go

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Windows Evidence Collection

Hoarderstars113 - Collecting the most valuable artifacts for forensics or incident response investigations.

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Incident Management

DFIRTrackstars352 - Incident Response tracking application handling one or more incidents via cases and tasks with a lot of affected systems and artifacts.

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Log Analysis Tools

APT Hunterstars619 - APT-Hunter is Threat Hunting tool for windows event logs.

Event Log Explorer - Tool developed to quickly analyze log files and other data.

Zircolitestars245 - A standalone and fast SIGMA-based detection tool for EVTX or JSON.

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Memory Analysis Tools

Rekall - Open source tool (and library) for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples.

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Playbooks

Counteractive Playbooks - Counteractive PLaybooks collection.

GuardSIght Playbook Battle Cardsstars86 - A collection of Cyber Incident Response Playbook Battle Cards

Phantom Community Playbooksstars313 - Phantom Community Playbooks for Splunk but also customizable for other use.

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Timeline Tools

Aurora Incident Responsestars299 - Platform developed to build easily a detailed timeline of an incident.

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Books

Incident Response & Computer Forensics, Third Edition - The definitive guide to incident response.

The Practice of Network Security Monitoring: Understanding Incident Detection and Response - Richard Bejtlich's book on IR.

Applied Incident Response - Steve Anson's book on Incident Response.

Operator Handbook: Red Team + OSINT + Blue Team Reference - Great reference for incident responders.

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Sandboxing/Reversing Tools

Yomi - Free MultiSandbox managed and hosted by Yoroi.

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All-In-One Tools

GRR Rapid Responsestars4k - Incident response framework focused on remote live forensics. It consists of a python agent (client) that is installed on target systems, and a python server infrastructure that can manage and talk to the agent. Besides the included Python API client, PowerGRRstars50 provides an API client library in PowerShell working on Windows, Linux and macOS for GRR automation and scripting.

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Sandboxing/Reversing Tools

Reverse.IT - Alternative domain for the Hybrid-Analysis tool provided by CrowdStrike.

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Other Tools

rastrea2rstars187 - Allows one to scan disks and memory for IOCs using YARA on Windows, Linux and OS X.

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Sandboxing/Reversing Tools

Cuckoostars4.9k - Open Source Highly configurable sandboxing tool.

CAPEv2stars617 - Malware Configuration And Payload Extraction.

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Windows Evidence Collection

IOC Finder - Free tool from Mandiant for collecting host system data and reporting the presence of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs). Support for Windows only. No longer maintained. Only fully supported up to Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2.

RegRipperstars225 - Open source tool, written in Perl, for extracting/parsing information (keys, values, data) from the Registry and presenting it for analysis.

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Process Dump Tools

Microsoft ProcDump - Dumps any running Win32 processes memory image on the fly.

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OSX Evidence Collection

Knockknock - Displays persistent items(scripts, commands, binaries, etc.) that are set to execute automatically on OSX.

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Memory Analysis Tools

WindowsSCOPE - Memory forensics and reverse engineering tool used for analyzing volatile memory offering the capability of analyzing the Windows kernel, drivers, DLLs, and virtual and physical memory.

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Incident Management

CORTEX XSOAR - Paloalto security orchestration, automation and response platform with full Incident lifecycle management and many integrations to enhance automations.

Sandia Cyber Omni Tracker (SCOT)stars221 - Incident Response collaboration and knowledge capture tool focused on flexibility and ease of use. Our goal is to add value to the incident response process without burdening the user.

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All-In-One Tools

Limacharlie - Endpoint security platform composed of a collection of small projects all working together that gives you a cross-platform (Windows, OSX, Linux, Android and iOS) low-level environment for managing and pushing additional modules into memory to extend its functionality.

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Memory Analysis Tools

Memoryze for Mac - Memoryze for Mac is Memoryze but then for Macs. A lower number of features, however.

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Memory Analysis Tools

AVMLstars459 - A portable volatile memory acquisition tool for Linux.

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Log Analysis Tools

AppCompatProcessorstars151 - AppCompatProcessor has been designed to extract additional value from enterprise-wide AppCompat / AmCache data beyond the classic stacking and grepping techniques.

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Sandboxing/Reversing Tools

Cutterstars10.8k - Reverse engineering platform powered by Radare2.

Radare2stars15.6k - Reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.

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Evidence Collection

CyLRstars418 - The CyLR tool collects forensic artifacts from hosts with NTFS file systems quickly, securely and minimizes impact to the host.

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Windows Evidence Collection

Invoke-LiveResponsestars125 - Invoke-LiveResponse is a live response tool for targeted collection.

IRTriagestars106 - Incident Response Triage - Windows Evidence Collection for Forensic Analysis.

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Other Tools

PowerSponsestars33 - PowerSponse is a PowerShell module focused on targeted containment and remediation during security incident response.

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Sandboxing/Reversing Tools

StringSifterstars526 - A machine learning tool that ranks strings based on their relevance for malware analysis.

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Communities

Slack DFIR channel - Slack DFIR Communitiy channel - Signup here.

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Other Lists

Eric Zimmerman Tools - An updated list of forensic tools created by Eric Zimmerman, an instructor for SANS institute.

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Memory Analysis Tools

MalConfScanstars377 - MalConfScan is a Volatility plugin extracts configuration data of known malware. Volatility is an open-source memory forensics framework for incident response and malware analysis. This tool searches for malware in memory images and dumps configuration data. In addition, this tool has a function to list strings to which malicious code refers.

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Sandboxing/Reversing Tools

AMAaaS - Android Malware Analysis as a Service, executed in a native Android environment.

Any Run - Interactive online malware analysis service for dynamic and static research of most types of threats using any environment.

Hybrid-Analysis - Free powerful online sandbox by CrowdStrike.

Intezer - Intezer Analyze dives into Windows binaries to detect micro-code similarities to known threats, in order to provide accurate yet easy-to-understand results.

Joe Sandbox (Community) - Joe Sandbox detects and analyzes potential malicious files and URLs on Windows, Android, Mac OS, Linux, and iOS for suspicious activities; providing comprehensive and detailed analysis reports.

Valkyrie Comodo - Valkyrie uses run-time behavior and hundreds of features from a file to perform analysis.

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Log Analysis Tools

Kaspersky CyberTrace - Threat intelligence fusion and analysis tool that integrates threat data feeds with SIEM solutions. Users can immediately leverage threat intelligence for security monitoring and incident report (IR) activities in the workflow of their existing security operations.

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Log Analysis Tools

Lorgstars197 - Tool for advanced HTTPD logfile security analysis and forensics.

Logdissectstars106 - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.

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Adversary Emulation

Calderastars3.2k - Automated adversary emulation system that performs post-compromise adversarial behavior within Windows Enterprise networks. It generates plans during operation using a planning system and a pre-configured adversary model based on the Adversarial Tactics, Techniques & Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) project.

APTSimulatorstars1.7k - Windows Batch script that uses a set of tools and output files to make a system look as if it was compromised.

DumpsterFirestars827 - Modular, menu-driven, cross-platform tool for building repeatable, time-delayed, distributed security events. Easily create custom event chains for Blue Team drills and sensor / alert mapping. Red Teams can create decoy incidents, distractions, and lures to support and scale their operations.

Mettastars924 - Information security preparedness tool to do adversarial simulation.

Network Flight Simulatorstars626 - Lightweight utility used to generate malicious network traffic and help security teams to evaluate security controls and network visibility.

RedHunt-OSstars1k - Virtual machine for adversary emulation and threat hunting.

Blue Team Training Toolkit (BT3) - Software for defensive security training, which will bring your network analysis training sessions, incident response drills and red team engagements to a new level.

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All-In-One Tools

osquery - Easily ask questions about your Linux and macOS infrastructure using a SQL-like query language; the provided incident-response pack helps you detect and respond to breaches.

Redline - Provides host investigative capabilities to users to find signs of malicious activity through memory and file analysis, and the development of a threat assessment profile.

Zentralstars586 - Combines osquery's powerful endpoint inventory features with a flexible notification and action framework. This enables one to identify and react to changes on OS X and Linux clients.

CimSweepstars593 - Suite of CIM/WMI-based tools that enable the ability to perform incident response and hunting operations remotely across all versions of Windows.

Doormanstars580 - osquery fleet manager that allows remote management of osquery configurations retrieved by nodes. It takes advantage of osquery's TLS configuration, logger, and distributed read/write endpoints, to give administrators visibility across a fleet of devices with minimal overhead and intrusiveness.

Falcon Orchestratorstars167 - Extendable Windows-based application that provides workflow automation, case management and security response functionality.

MozDefstars2.2k - Automates the security incident handling process and facilitate the real-time activities of incident handlers.

nightHawkstars589 - Application built for asynchronus forensic data presentation using ElasticSearch as the backend. It's designed to ingest Redline collections.

Open Computer Forensics Architecture - Another popular distributed open-source computer forensics framework. This framework was built on Linux platform and uses postgreSQL database for storing data.

The Sleuth Kit & Autopsy - Unix and Windows based tool which helps in forensic analysis of computers. It comes with various tools which helps in digital forensics. These tools help in analyzing disk images, performing in-depth analysis of file systems, and various other things.

TheHive - Scalable 3-in-1 open source and free solution designed to make life easier for SOCs, CSIRTs, CERTs and any information security practitioner dealing with security incidents that need to be investigated and acted upon swiftly.

X-Ways Forensics - Forensics tool for Disk cloning and imaging. It can be used to find deleted files and disk analysis.

Belkasoft Evidence Center - The toolkit will quickly extract digital evidence from multiple sources by analyzing hard drives, drive images, memory dumps, iOS, Blackberry and Android backups, UFED, JTAG and chip-off dumps.

CIRTkitstars131 - CIRTKit is not just a collection of tools, but also a framework to aid in the ongoing unification of Incident Response and Forensics investigation processes.

Cyber Triage - Cyber Triage remotely collects and analyzes endpoint data to help determine if it is compromised. It’s agentless approach and focus on ease of use and automation allows companies to respond without major infrastructure changes and without a team of forensics experts. Its results are used to decide if the system should be erased or investigated further.

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Evidence Collection

Cold Disk Quick Responsestars308 - Streamlined list of parsers to quickly analyze a forensic image file (dd, E01, .vmdk, etc) and output nine reports.

bulk_extractorstars576 - Computer forensics tool that scans a disk image, a file, or a directory of files and extracts useful information without parsing the file system or file system structures. Because of ignoring the file system structure, the program distinguishes itself in terms of speed and thoroughness.

ir-rescuestars361 - Windows Batch script and a Unix Bash script to comprehensively collect host forensic data during incident response.

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OSX Evidence Collection

macOS Artifact Parsing Tool (mac_apt)stars442 - Plugin based forensics framework for quick mac triage that works on live machines, disk images or individual artifact files.

OSX Auditorstars3.1k - Free Mac OS X computer forensics tool.

OSX Collectorstars1.8k - OSX Auditor offshoot for live response.

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Other Tools

Crits - Web-based tool which combines an analytic engine with a cyber threat database.

Diffystars586 - DFIR tool developed by Netflix's SIRT that allows an investigator to quickly scope a compromise across cloud instances (Linux instances on AWS, currently) during an incident and efficiently triaging those instances for followup actions by showing differences against a baseline.

sqhunterstars63 - Threat hunter based on osquery and Salt Open (SaltStack) that can issue ad-hoc or distributed queries without the need for osquery's tls plugin. sqhunter allows you to query open network sockets and check them against threat intelligence sources.

domfindstars18 - Python DNS crawler for finding identical domain names under different TLDs.

RaQet - Unconventional remote acquisition and triaging tool that allows triage a disk of a remote computer (client) that is restarted with a purposely built forensic operating system.

Stenographerstars1.7k - Packet capture solution which aims to quickly spool all packets to disk, then provide simple, fast access to subsets of those packets. It stores as much history as it possible, managing disk usage, and deleting when disk limits are hit. It's ideal for capturing the traffic just before and during an incident, without the need explicit need to store all of the network traffic.

X-Ray 2.0 - Windows utility (poorly maintained or no longer maintained) to submit virus samples to AV vendors.

Fileintelstars102 - Pull intelligence per file hash.

HELKstars3.1k - Threat Hunting platform.

Hindsightstars690 - Internet history forensics for Google Chrome/Chromium.

Hostintelstars231 - Pull intelligence per host.

imagemounterstars88 - Command line utility and Python package to ease the (un)mounting of forensic disk images.

Stalk - Collect forensic data about MySQL when problems occur.

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Timeline Tools

Timesketchstars1.8k - Open source tool for collaborative forensic timeline analysis.

Morguestars988 - PHP Web app by Etsy for managing postmortems.

Highlighter - Free Tool available from Fire/Mandiant that will depict log/text file that can highlight areas on the graphic, that corresponded to a key word or phrase. Good for time lining an infection and what was done post compromise.

Plasostars1.2k - a Python-based backend engine for the tool log2timeline.

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Windows Evidence Collection

Fibratusstars1.5k - Tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel.

AChoirstars155 - Framework/scripting tool to standardize and simplify the process of scripting live acquisition utilities for Windows.

Crowd Response - Lightweight Windows console application designed to aid in the gathering of system information for incident response and security engagements. It features numerous modules and output formats.

Panoramastars33 - Fast incident overview on live Windows systems.

PowerForensicsstars1.1k - Live disk forensics platform, using PowerShell.

PSReconstars434 - PSRecon gathers data from a remote Windows host using PowerShell (v2 or later), organizes the data into folders, hashes all extracted data, hashes PowerShell and various system properties, and sends the data off to the security team. The data can be pushed to a share, sent over email, or retained locally.

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Disk Image Creation Tools

AccessData FTK Imager - Forensics tool whose main purpose is to preview recoverable data from a disk of any kind. FTK Imager can also acquire live memory and paging file on 32bit and 64bit systems.

GetData Forensic Imager - Windows based program that will acquire, convert, or verify a forensic image in one of the following common forensic file formats.

Guymager - Free forensic imager for media acquisition on Linux.

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Incident Management

CyberCPR - Community and commercial incident management tool with Need-to-Know built in to support GDPR compliance while handling sensitive incidents.

Fast Incident Response (FIR)stars1.4k - Cybersecurity incident management platform designed with agility and speed in mind. It allows for easy creation, tracking, and reporting of cybersecurity incidents and is useful for CSIRTs, CERTs and SOCs alike.

threat_notestars400 - Lightweight investigation notebook that allows security researchers the ability to register and retrieve indicators related to their research.

RTIR - Request Tracker for Incident Response (RTIR) is the premier open source incident handling system targeted for computer security teams. We worked with over a dozen CERT and CSIRT teams around the world to help you handle the ever-increasing volume of incident reports. RTIR builds on all the features of Request Tracker.

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Linux Distributions

The Appliance for Digital Investigation and Analysis (ADIA) - VMware-based appliance used for digital investigation and acquisition and is built entirely from public domain software. Among the tools contained in ADIA are Autopsy, the Sleuth Kit, the Digital Forensics Framework, log2timeline, Xplico, and Wireshark. Most of the system maintenance uses Webmin. It is designed for small-to-medium sized digital investigations and acquisitions. The appliance runs under Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. Both i386 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) versions are available.

Computer Aided Investigative Environment (CAINE) - Contains numerous tools that help investigators during their analysis, including forensic evidence collection.

Digital Evidence & Forensics Toolkit (DEFT) - Linux distribution made for computer forensic evidence collection. It comes bundled with the Digital Advanced Response Toolkit (DART) for Windows. A light version of DEFT, called DEFT Zero, is also available, which is focused primarily on forensically sound evidence collection.

Security Onionstars3k - Special Linux distro aimed at network security monitoring featuring advanced analysis tools.

SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit (SIFT) Workstation - Demonstrates that advanced incident response capabilities and deep dive digital forensic techniques to intrusions can be accomplished using cutting-edge open-source tools that are freely available and frequently updated.

CCF-VMstars425 - CyLR CDQR Forensics Virtual Machine (CCF-VM): An all-in-one solution to parsing collected data, making it easily searchable with built-in common searches, enable searching of single and multiple hosts simultaneously.

NST - Network Security Toolkit - Linux distribution that includes a vast collection of best-of-breed open source network security applications useful to the network security professional.

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Log Analysis Tools

StreamAlertstars2.7k - Serverless, real-time log data analysis framework, capable of ingesting custom data sources and triggering alerts using user-defined logic.

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Memory Analysis Tools

LiMEstars1.2k - Loadable Kernel Module (LKM), which allows the acquisition of volatile memory from Linux and Linux-based devices, formerly called DMD.

Memoryze - Free memory forensic software that helps incident responders find evil in live memory. Memoryze can acquire and/or analyze memory images, and on live systems, can include the paging file in its analysis.

Volatilitystars5.1k - Advanced memory forensics framework.

VolatilityBotstars239 - Automation tool for researchers cuts all the guesswork and manual tasks out of the binary extraction phase, or to help the investigator in the first steps of performing a memory analysis investigation.

Evolvestars246 - Web interface for the Volatility Memory Forensics Framework.

inVtero.netstars251 - Advanced memory analysis for Windows x64 with nested hypervisor support.

Responder PRO - Responder PRO is the industry standard physical memory and automated malware analysis solution.

VolDiffstars181 - Malware Memory Footprint Analysis based on Volatility.

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Memory Imaging Tools

Belkasoft Live RAM Capturer - Tiny free forensic tool to reliably extract the entire content of the computer’s volatile memory – even if protected by an active anti-debugging or anti-dumping system.

Linux Memory Grabberstars230 - Script for dumping Linux memory and creating Volatility profiles.

Magnet RAM Capture - Free imaging tool designed to capture the physical memory of a suspect’s computer. Supports recent versions of Windows.

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Other Lists

List of various Security APIsstars629 - Collective list of public JSON APIs for use in security.

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Process Dump Tools

PMDump - Tool that lets you dump the memory contents of a process to a file without stopping the process.

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Sandboxing/Reversing Tools

Cuckoo-modified-apistars16 - Python library to control a cuckoo-modified sandbox.

Mastiffstars150 - Static analysis framework that automates the process of extracting key characteristics from a number of different file formats.

Viperstars1.4k - Python based binary analysis and management framework, that works well with Cuckoo and YARA.

Virustotal - Free online service that analyzes files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and website scanners.

Cuckoo-modifiedstars375 - Heavily modified Cuckoo fork developed by community.

Visualize_Logsstars130 - Open source visualization library and command line tools for logs (Cuckoo, Procmon, more to come).

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Playbooks

IRMstars875 - Incident Response Methodologies by CERT Societe Generale.

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Videos

The Future of Incident Response - Presented by Bruce Schneier at OWASP AppSecUSA 2015.

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Log Analysis Tools

SysmonSearchstars336 - SysmonSearch makes Windows event log analysis more effective and less time consuming by aggregation of event logs.

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Other Tools

Scout2 - Security tool that lets Amazon Web Services administrators assess their environment's security posture.

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Evidence Collection

Margarita Shotgunstars195 - Command line utility (that works with or without Amazon EC2 instances) to parallelize remote memory acquisition.

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Windows Evidence Collection

IREC - All-in-one IR Evidence Collector which captures RAM Image, $MFT, EventLogs, WMI Scripts, Registry Hives, System Restore Points and much more. It is FREE, lightning fast and easy to use.

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Adversary Emulation

AutoTTPstars222 - Automated Tactics Techniques & Procedures. Re-running complex sequences manually for regression tests, product evaluations, generate data for researchers.

Red Team Automation (RTA)stars859 - RTA provides a framework of scripts designed to allow blue teams to test their detection capabilities against malicious tradecraft, modeled after MITRE ATT&CK.

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Disk Image Creation Tools

Bitscoutstars386 - Bitscout by Vitaly Kamluk helps you build your fully-trusted customizable LiveCD/LiveUSB image to be used for remote digital forensics (or perhaps any other task of your choice). It is meant to be transparent and monitorable by the owner of the system, forensically sound, customizable and compact.

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Incident Management

Cyphon - Cyphon eliminates the headaches of incident management by streamlining a multitude of related tasks through a single platform. It receives, processes and triages events to provide an all-encompassing solution for your analytic workflow — aggregating data, bundling and prioritizing alerts, and empowering analysts to investigate and document incidents.

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Other Tools

Cortex - Cortex allows you to analyze observables such as IP and email addresses, URLs, domain names, files or hashes one by one or in bulk mode using a Web interface. Analysts can also automate these operations using its REST API.

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Playbooks

PagerDuty Incident Response Documentation - Documents that describe parts of the PagerDuty Incident Response process. It provides information not only on preparing for an incident, but also what to do during and after. Source is available on GitHubstars902.

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Disk Image Creation Tools

Magnet ACQUIRE - ACQUIRE by Magnet Forensics allows various types of disk acquisitions to be performed on Windows, Linux, and OS X as well as mobile operating systems.