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Top 8 C++ Forensic Projects
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ImHex
🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.
Project mention: Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-08I find Geizhals' filtering options reasonably compact and information dense. https://geizhals.de/?cat=gra16_512&xf=132_16384&pg=1&view=li...
I like the simple table view of RPiLocator. Only a few columns, but lots of rows, no unneeded clutter. https://rpilocator.com/
Not as compact as possible, but at least shows quite some information: GSMArena. It could fit more phones into the comparison table with less whitespace/greyspace though. https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=10386&idPhone...
All sites as viewed on desktop, on mobile this would likely not work out.
I also want to echo the command line tools mention in another comment. GDB's TUI is reasonable for my use, but after some experience this recently posted terminal debugger might be better: https://github.com/al13n321/nnd via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905185
Also the hex editor I am currently using, despite some problems: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
An example of an information dense GUI that might be a bit overwhelming is Ghidra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidra (page includes a basic screenshot, you can fill your screen(s) with as many sub windows and information panes as you want)
As a side note, while trying to find examples I realized just how few websites there are (any more?) that show a lot of information at the same time. Worst recent offender is YouTube's redesign with only 3 video tiles in a row on a 1440p screen, luckily easily fixed via a ublock rule.
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sleuthkit
The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.
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Forensia
Anti Forensics Tool For Red Teamers, Used For Erasing Footprints In The Post Exploitation Phase.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C++ Forensics discussion
C++ Forensics related posts
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PaulNorman01/Forensia
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Forensia: Anti Forensics Tool For Red Teamers, Used For Erasing Footprints In The Post Exploitation Phase.
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Tcpflow: TCP/IP Packet Demultiplexer
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Getting Started with NMAP
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Demuxusb: A program and toolset to analyze iDevice USB sessions
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Forensic projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ImHex | 49,006 |
| 2 | sleuthkit | 2,799 |
| 3 | tcpflow | 1,734 |
| 4 | Forensia | 753 |
| 5 | fatcat | 314 |
| 6 | c-aff4 | 197 |
| 7 | Hibr2Bin | 146 |
| 8 | demuxusb | 34 |
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