The Sleuth Kit

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Tool and Usage

Project details

License
Multi-license
Programming language
C
Author
Brian Carrier
Latest release
sleuthkit-4.12.1
Latest release date

Project health

89
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Why this tool?

The Sleuth Kit is a forensics tool to analyze volume and file system data on disk images. With its modular design, it can be used to carve out the right data, find evidence, and use it for digital forensics.

Usage and audience

The Sleuth Kit is commonly used for criminal investigations, digital forensics, or file system analysis. 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

  • + More than 50 contributors
  • + More than 1000 GitHub stars
  • + The source code of this software is available
  • + Well-known tool

Author and Maintainers

The Sleuth Kit is under development by Brian Carrier.

Installation

Supported operating systems

The Sleuth Kit is known to work on Linux.

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