Rust threat-hunting

Open-source Rust projects categorized as threat-hunting

Top 7 Rust threat-hunting Projects

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  1. chainsaw

    Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Forensic Artefacts

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. hayabusa

    Hayabusa (隼) is a sigma-based threat hunting and fast forensics timeline generator for Windows event logs.

  4. matano

    Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS

  5. kunai

    Threat-hunting tool for Linux

  6. Owlyshield

    Owlyshield is an EDR framework designed to safeguard vulnerable applications from potential exploitation (C&C, exfiltration and impact).

  7. ghost

    Detects process injection and memory manipulation used by malware. Finds RWX regions, shellcode patterns, API hooks, thread hijacking, and process hollowing. Built in Rust for speed. Includes CLI and TUI interfaces. (by pandaadir05)

    Project mention: Made a tool to detect process injection | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-21
  8. rusthunter

    RustHunter is a modular incident response framework based on Rust and Ansible to build and compare environmental baselines.

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).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source threat-hunting projects in Rust? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 chainsaw 3,560
2 hayabusa 3,189
3 matano 1,665
4 kunai 1,070
5 Owlyshield 422
6 ghost 361
7 rusthunter 18

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