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APTSimulator

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

Atomic Red Team (ART)

Small and highly portable detection tests mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

AutoTTP

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

Caldera

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

DumpsterFire

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

Metta

Information security preparedness tool to do adversarial simulation

Network Flight Simulator

Lightweight utility used to generate malicious network traffic and help security teams to evaluate security controls and network visibility

Red Team Automation (RTA)

RTA provides a framework of scripts designed to allow blue teams to test their detection capabilities against malicious tradecraft, modeled after MITRE ATT&CK

RedHunt-OS

Virtual machine for adversary emulation and threat hunting

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

CimSweep

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

CIRTkit

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 collects and analyzes host data to determine if it is compromised. It's scoring system and recommendation engine allow you to quickly focus on the important artifacts. It can import data from its collection tool, disk images, and other collectors (such as KAPE). It can run on an examiner's desktop or in a server model. Developed by Sleuth Kit Labs, which also makes Autopsy

Dissect

Dissect is a digital forensics & incident response framework and toolset that allows you to quickly access and analyse forensic artefacts from various disk and file formats, developed by Fox-IT (part of NCC Group)

Doorman

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 Orchestrator

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

Flare

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

Fleetdm

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

GRR Rapid Response

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, provides an API client library in PowerShell working on Windows, Linux and macOS for GRR automation and scripting

IRIS

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

Kuiper

Digital Forensics Investigation Platform

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

Matano

: Open source serverless security lake platform on AWS that lets you ingest, store, and analyze petabytes of security data into an Apache Iceberg data lake and run realtime Python detections as code

MozDef

Automates the security incident handling process and facilitate the real-time activities of incident handlers

MutableSecurity

CLI program for automating the setup, configuration, and use of cybersecurity solutions

nightHawk

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

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

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

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

SOC Multi-tool

A powerful and user-friendly browser extension that streamlines investigations for security professionals

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

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

Velociraptor

Endpoint visibility and collection tool

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

Zentral

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

Steve Anson's book on Incident Response

Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory

by Jeff Bollinger, Brandon Enright and Matthew Valites

by Gerard Johansen

By Scott J. Roberts

The definitive guide to incident response

A great guide to build an incident response strategy for ransomware attacks. By Oleg Skulkin

Great reference to build an incident response plan based also on Threat Intelligence. By Roberto Martinez

By Scott J. Roberts, Rebekah Brown

Great reference for incident responders

The definitive guide to practice memory forensics. By Svetlana Ostrovskaya and Oleg Skulkin

Richard Bejtlich's book on IR

Community of 8,000+ working professionals from Law Enforcement, Private Sector, and Forensic Vendors. Additionally, plenty of students and hobbyists! Guide

Slack DFIR Communitiy channel -

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

Bitscout

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

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

Free forensic imager for media acquisition on Linux

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

Acquire

Acquire is a tool to quickly gather forensic artifacts from disk images or a live system into a lightweight container. This makes Acquire an excellent tool to, among others, speedup the process of digital forensic triage. It uses to gather that information from the raw disk, if possible

artifactcollector

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

bulk_extractor

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

Cold Disk Quick Response

Streamlined list of parsers to quickly analyze a forensic image file ( , E01, , etc) and output nine reports

CyLR

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

Forensic Artifacts

Digital Forensics Artifact Repository

ir-rescue

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

Automated tool that collects volatile data from Windows, OSX, and *nix based operating systems

Margarita Shotgun

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

SPECTR3

Acquire, triage and investigate remote evidence via portable iSCSI readonly access

UAC

UAC (Unix-like Artifacts Collector) is a Live Response collection script for Incident Response that makes use of native binaries and tools to automate the collection of AIX, Android, ESXi, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, NetScaler, OpenBSD and Solaris systems artifacts

Catalyst

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

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

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

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

DFTimewolf

A framework for orchestrating forensic collection, processing and data export

DFIRTrack

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

Fast Incident Response (FIR)

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

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

Sandia Cyber Omni Tracker (SCOT)

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

Shuffle

A general purpose security automation platform focused on accessibility

threat_note

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

Zenduty is a novel incident management platform providing end-to-end incident alerting, on-call management and response orchestration, giving teams greater control and automation over the incident management lifecycle

Digital Forensics Artifact Knowledge Base

Digital Forensics Artifact Knowledge Base

Windows Events Attack Samples

Windows Events Attack Samples

Windows Registry Knowledge Base

Windows Registry Knowledge Base

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

Contains numerous tools that help investigators during their analysis, including forensic evidence collection

CCF-VM

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

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

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

Security Onion

Special Linux distro aimed at network security monitoring featuring advanced analysis tools

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

FastIR Collector Linux

FastIR for Linux collects different artifacts on live Linux and records the results in CSV files

MAGNET DumpIt

Fast memory acquisition open source tool for Linux written in Rust. Generate full memory crash dumps of Linux machines

AppCompatProcessor

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

APT Hunter

APT-Hunter is Threat Hunting tool for windows event logs

Chainsaw

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

Tool developed to quickly analyze log files and other data

View, analyze and monitor events recorded in Microsoft Windows event logs with this GUI tool

Hayabusa

Hayabusa is a Windows event log fast forensics timeline generator and threat hunting tool created by the Yamato Security group in Japan

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

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

Lorg

Tool for advanced HTTPD logfile security analysis and forensics

Logdissect

CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data

LogonTracer

Tool to investigate malicious Windows logon by visualizing and analyzing Windows event log

Sigma

Generic signature format for SIEM systems already containing an extensive ruleset

StreamAlert

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

SysmonSearch

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

WELA

Windows Event Log Analyzer aims to be the Swiss Army knife for Windows event logs

Zircolite

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

AVML

A portable volatile memory acquisition tool for Linux

Evolve

Web interface for the Volatility Memory Forensics Framework

inVtero.net

Advanced memory analysis for Windows x64 with nested hypervisor support

LiME

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

MalConfScan

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

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

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

https://github.com/ufrisk/MemProcFS

[MemProcFS] ( ) - MemProcFS is an easy and convenient way of viewing physical memory as files in a virtual file system

Orochi

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

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

Volatility

Advanced memory forensics framework

Volatility 3

The volatile memory extraction framework (successor of Volatility)

VolatilityBot

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

VolDiff

Malware Memory Footprint Analysis based on Volatility

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

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 Grabber

Script for dumping Linux memory and creating Volatility profiles

Fast memory acquisition tool for Windows (x86, x64, ARM64). Generate full memory crash dumps of Windows machines

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

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

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

macOS Artifact Parsing Tool (mac_apt)

Plugin based forensics framework for quick mac triage that works on live machines, disk images or individual artifact files

OSX Auditor

Free Mac OS X computer forensics tool

OSX Collector

OSX Auditor offshoot for live response

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

Awesome Event IDs

Collection of Event ID resources useful for Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Awesome Forensics

A curated list of awesome forensic analysis tools and resources

Didier Stevens Suite

Tool collection

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

List of various Security APIs

Collective list of public JSON APIs for use in security

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

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

Diffy

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

domfind

Python DNS crawler for finding identical domain names under different TLDs

Fileintel

Pull intelligence per file hash

HELK

Threat Hunting platform

Hindsight

Internet history forensics for Google Chrome/Chromium

Hostintel

Pull intelligence per host

imagemounter

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

Kansa

Modular incident response framework in PowerShell

MFT Browser

MFT directory tree reconstruction & record info

Munin

Online hash checker for VirusTotal and other services

PowerSponse

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

PyaraScanner

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

rastrea2r

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

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

Raccine

A Simple Ransomware Protection

Collect forensic data about MySQL when problems occur

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

Stenographer

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

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

sysmon-config

Sysmon configuration file template with default high-quality event tracing

sysmon-modular

A repository of sysmon configuration modules

traceroute-circl

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

Windows utility (poorly maintained or no longer maintained) to submit virus samples to AV vendors

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"

Counteractive Playbooks

Counteractive PLaybooks collection

GuardSIght Playbook Battle Cards

A collection of Cyber Incident Response Playbook Battle Cards

IRM

Incident Response Methodologies by CERT Societe Generale

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

Phantom Community Playbooks

Phantom Community Playbooks for Splunk but also customizable for other use

ThreatHunter-Playbook

Playbook to aid the development of techniques and hypothesis for hunting campaigns

Dumps any running Win32 processes memory image on the fly

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

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

CAPA

detects capabilities in executable files. You run it against a PE, ELF, .NET module, or shellcode file and it tells you what it thinks the program can do

CAPEv2

Malware Configuration And Payload Extraction

Cuckoo

Open Source Highly configurable sandboxing tool

Cuckoo-modified

Heavily modified Cuckoo fork developed by community

Cuckoo-modified-api

Python library to control a cuckoo-modified sandbox

Cutter

Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin

Ghidra

Software Reverse Engineering Framework

Free powerful online sandbox by CrowdStrike

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 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

Mastiff

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

Free threat intelligence platform providing multiscanning, data sanitization and vulnerability assessment of files

Radare2

Reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

Alternative domain for the Hybrid-Analysis tool provided by CrowdStrike

Rizin

UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

StringSifter

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

Cloud based threat analysis platform which include sandbox, CDR and interactive analysis for researchers

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

Viper

Python based binary analysis and management framework, that works well with Cuckoo and YARA

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

Visualize_Logs

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

Free MultiSandbox managed and hosted by Yoroi

Fenrir

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

LOKI

Free IR scanner for scanning endpoint with yara rules and other indicators(IOCs)

Spyre

Simple YARA-based IOC scanner written in Go

Aurora Incident Response

Platform developed to build easily a detailed timeline of an incident

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

Morgue

PHP Web app by Etsy for managing postmortems

Plaso

a Python-based backend engine for the tool log2timeline

Timesketch

Open source tool for collaborative forensic timeline analysis

Presented by Bruce Schneier at OWASP AppSecUSA 2015

AChoir

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

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

Cyber Triage has a lightweight collection tool that is free to use. It collects source files (such as registry hives and event logs), but also parses them on the live host so that it can also collect the executables that the startup items, scheduled, tasks, etc. refer to. It's output is a JSON file that can be imported into the free version of Cyber Triage. Cyber Triage is made by Sleuth Kit Labs, which also makes Autopsy

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

FastIR Collector

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

Fibratus

Tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel

Hoarder

Collecting the most valuable artifacts for forensics or incident response investigations

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

Invoke-LiveResponse

Invoke-LiveResponse is a live response tool for targeted collection

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

IRTriage

Incident Response Triage - Windows Evidence Collection for Forensic Analysis

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

LOKI

Free IR scanner for scanning endpoint with yara rules and other indicators(IOCs)

MEERKAT

PowerShell-based triage and threat hunting for Windows

Panorama

Fast incident overview on live Windows systems

PowerForensics

Live disk forensics platform, using PowerShell

PSRecon

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

RegRipper

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