Digital Forensic Tools & Utilities
Digital Forensics Tools:
SANS
- CSC Parser – Parse the Client side cache Directory and restore the files.
- gMail Offline Parser – Parse the Gmail Offline folder and display the email’s.
- Internet History – Parse the IE files (cookies, index.dat, history) and display reports.
- Internet Parser – Parse the following browsers flock, chrome, firefox and display reports.
- iTunes Parser – Parse an Itunes library and determine Email address songs were registered to.
- PreFetch Parser – Parse the prefetch files and display information.
- Skype Parser – Parse Skype Logs.
- Vista Thumb-Cache Parser – Parse the Vista thumbcache files.
- Thumbnail_html – Read a directory of graphics and create a webpage to display them plus display EXIF info.
- Date-Time – Pick a time and convert to a new time zone.
- Recycle-Bin – Parse the Recycle bin and output information on it.
- Office-MetaData Parser – Parse Microsoft office documents and report on it.
- Temporal nalysis for MFTRipper – Time line analysis for MFT Ripper – Works with Free version – working on making it work with paid version of MFT Ripper.
Other Tools
- AnalyseMFT – Used to parse the Master File Table and providing you with a complete report on its contents.
- The Sleuth Kit – SLK
- Autopsy Browser
- AIDA32Good and comprehensive inventory tool
- The Centre for Internet Security (CIS) – Download (free) best practice benchmarks for operating systems, networks, applications and more.
- Sam Spade – A free and useful network lookup tool that includes finding an IP address from a hostname, or vice-versa, traceroute, dig, email header analysis and more
- Microsoft security tools – From Microsoft Security
- Netcraft – Site that enables you to determine which hosting software is being run on that website
- Top 100 Network Security Tools – Site that rates and describes the best network security tools – many are freeware
- Password Recovery Resources – Tools to Recover Passwords
- What’s that process in Task Manager? – Look-up processes that you see in task manager and find out if they are safe
- What’s going on in XP? – A huge inventory of Windows XP knowledge
- What’s that UNIX process? – A useful repository of knowledge about common UNIX processes and programs
- WinHex – One of the best low cost forensic utilities for disk analysis
- Windows NT/2000/XP DumpSec – Free reporting tool/s to create audit reports from Windows systems
Penetration Test Resources
- Glossary – A comprehensive glossary of vulnerability testing terms from the Finnish University of OULU
- Open Web Application Security Project – The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a worldwide free and open community focused on improving the security of application software – go here for free resources and advisories