plaso
Super timeline all the things (by log2timeline)
velociraptor
Digging Deeper.... (by Velocidex)
| plaso | velociraptor | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 5 | |
| 1,623 | 2,665 | |
| 1.0% | 2.6% | |
| 9.0 | 9.6 | |
| 15 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| Python | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
plaso
Posts with mentions or reviews of plaso.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-09.
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Custom DFIR
However, what you are trying to do has already been done. For collections look at velociraptor's offline collector https://github.com/Velocidex/velociraptor. For processing check out Log2Timeline (plaso) https://github.com/log2timeline/plaso.
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I feel like I'm putting the cart before the horse. Noob question.
I see other folks already mentioned: think about trying to tell a story, rather than just like, looking at all the events (A tool like Plaso can help you timeline logs so you can see things chronologically which can help in telling a story about what happened across many log sources)
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Solving a child porn case (student environment)
My advice would be to go through a timeline to assert the activity before and after these files "appeared" . This can be done in log2timeline / plaso , this script can parse the raw image (or e01 or whatever you have) and build a timeline , parse it and sort it. Also look for lnk files and shellbags to see if the files were opened , used etc.
velociraptor
Posts with mentions or reviews of velociraptor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-09.
- How to carry out mass Digital Forensic Collections using open source tools?
- List Of Free Web-based OpenSource Tools For Incident Response
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Custom DFIR
However, what you are trying to do has already been done. For collections look at velociraptor's offline collector https://github.com/Velocidex/velociraptor. For processing check out Log2Timeline (plaso) https://github.com/log2timeline/plaso.
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https://github.com/Velocidex/velociraptor - purchased recently but still a great tool
What are some alternatives?
When comparing plaso and velociraptor you can also consider the following projects:
IPED - IPED Digital Forensic Tool. It is an open source software that can be used to process and analyze digital evidence, often seized at crime scenes by law enforcement or in a corporate investigation by private examiners.
Wazuh - Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.