chainsaw
Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Forensic Artefacts (by WithSecureLabs)
EvtxHussar
Initial triage of Windows Event logs (by yarox24)
| chainsaw | EvtxHussar | |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 2 | |
| 2,554 | 77 | |
| 1.8% | - | |
| 8.3 | 2.9 | |
| 20 days ago | almost 1 year ago | |
| Rust | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
chainsaw
Posts with mentions or reviews of chainsaw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-29.
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Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line
There’s already a DFIR log tool named chainsaw: https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw
- Agent event queue is flooded. Check the agent configuration
- What's your favorite cybersecurity tool?
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Tools for "static" log analysis
https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw if you're just looking for bad stuff.
- Chainsaw v2.0 Release - Hunt and Search Through Windows Event Logs
- Chainsaw v2.0.0 - Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Event Logs
- Chainsaw 2.0: Allows users to rapidly search through Windows event logs and hunt for threats using Sigma detection rules.
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EvtxHussar 1.0
Differences between this and Chainsaw? Chainsaw
- IR log Collection/Parsing Recommendations
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AMA : I’m a cybersecurity engineer at Microsoft .
Use Chainsaw for event logs https://github.com/countercept/chainsaw
EvtxHussar
Posts with mentions or reviews of EvtxHussar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-24.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing chainsaw and EvtxHussar you can also consider the following projects:
hayabusa - Hayabusa (隼) is a sigma-based threat hunting and fast forensics timeline generator for Windows event logs.
zff-rs - Library to handle the files in zff format (file format to store and handle forensic acquisitions).
WELA - WELA (Windows Event Log Analyzer): The Swiss Army knife for Windows Event Logs! ゑ羅（ウェラ）
Wazuh - Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
Purpleteam - Purpleteam scripts simulation & Detection - trigger events for SOC detections
EnableWindowsLogSettings - Documentation and scripts to properly enable Windows event logs.
lnav - Log file navigator
sidr - Search Index Database Reporter