Hands-on projects for beginners to learn and practice Windows forensics and essential cybersecurity skills
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Hands-on projects for beginners to learn and practice Windows forensics and essential cybersecurity skills
Open-source digital forensics (DFIR) toolkit with a desktop GUI: analyse E01, AFF4, raw/dd and VMDK disk images, recover deleted files by file carving, build timelines, search evidence and run YARA/Sigma rules. Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cross-platform registry browser for raw Windows registry files
Windows forensics Engine
ExeSpy is a cross-platform PE viewer for EXE and DLL files
Vault of Windows Registry forensic artifacts
A comprehensive MCP server for Windows digital forensics on KALI Linux
Rust DFIR tool that massively parses cross-platform evidence, even deleted logs, into a lateral movement timeline and graph database.
A DFIR Incident Response AI bot using local Ollama LLM to derrive automated findings from logs
Walk any memory dump. Find what's hidden. Linux + Windows kernel forensics from a single static Rust binary — no Python required.
Point it at disk + memory evidence; get a correlated, ATT&CK-mapped attack timeline. Rust DFIR orchestrator: one command ingests E01/EWF/VMDK/raw + memory dumps, parses NTFS/registry/EVTX/prefetch/LNK/SRUM/browser/Amcache + memory (processes, netstat, injection), correlates into a DuckDB super-timeline, scans threat-intel, and reports.
Tools and Techniques for Digital Forensics and Incident Response
Search Windows forensic artifacts, see where each one lives on disk, and copy the KAPE command to collect it. Also builds collection scripts and converts Sigma rules in the browser.
Command Spy is a utility for monitoring the command line arguments of new processes on Windows. Made for CCDC.
Valhuntir Windows forensic tool execution via MCP
Forensic analyzer for Windows WebCacheV01.dat. Reads dirty ESE databases read-only, recovers deleted records from free pages and transaction logs, and exports court-ready reports (PDF, Excel, CSV, JSON, SQLite, offline HTML) with SHA-256 provenance.
A comprehensive repository for CyberOps documentation, Blue Team playbooks, and open-source forensic tools like Cerberus and Chimera.
Python module for forensic analysis of Windows shortcuts (LNK files). You can install this package using pip install lnkanalyser
Useful tools for (not only) digital forensics
DFIR artifact catalog (6,554 artifacts, LOL/LOFL binaries, abusable sites) plus the normalized report vocabulary the SecurityRonin analyzer fleet shares — offline Rust library + 4n6query CLI
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