dfis (Digital Forensic Investigative Scripts)
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv3
- Programming language
- Perl
- Author
- Hal Pomeranz
- Latest release
- No release found
- Latest release date
- Unknown
Project health
Links
 | GitHub project |
Why this tool?
This toolkit of scripts are made by Hal to help in forensic assignments. They make several parts of the job easier, like converting data to another format for further processing.
Background information
Hal stated on the GitHub project page that documentation could be further improved. Several blog posts help with understanding this kit, along the built-in help.
Usage and audience
dfis is commonly used for digital forensics. Target users for this tool are forensic specialists and security professionals.
Features
- Command line interface
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Well-known author
Weaknesses
- - No updates for a while
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a Linux DFIR tool and digital forensics tool.