A list of free and open forensics analysis tools and other resources
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Jul 9, 2026
A list of free and open forensics analysis tools and other resources
Collaborative Incident Response platform
macOS forensic acquisition made simple
macos-collector - Automated Collection of macOS Forensic Artifacts for DFIR
A collection of PowerShell scripts for analyzing macOS Forensic Artifacts
C# Library and research notes for Windows 11 Notepad State Files
Neural network RDP cache reconstruction tool
Automatically create iSCSI targets for all drives except for a boot device
Is a portable forensic tool for analyzing Windows logs, pre-organized according to the methodology outlined in this job: https://cybersecuritynews.com/windows-event-log-analysis/, to quickly highlight key forensic artifacts.
Digital Forensics Essentials (DFE)
VMDetect is a Python based Windows VM detection and environment forensics tool that reads ACPI/SMBIOS firmware tables and system artifacts to expose virtual machines, even if people try to hide them!
Collect digital evidence in one place.Disk, RAM, and Android acquisition.
Reverse Engineering the Tabstate files for Windows Notepad
Decryption tool for LockMyPix android app
DFLER: Drone Flight Log Entity Recognizer to Support Forensic Investigation on Drone Device
Valhuntir SIFT platform — MCP servers, gateway, Examiner Portal
Linux last-logon forensic auditing from the binary lastlog database.
A zero-dependency, open-source CLI tool for digital forensics and backups. Built for security researchers and sysadmins to streamline data extraction, metadata analysis, and rapid file recovery.
A tool that detects files and directories that may be hidden by trojan and rootkits on Unix platforms
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