DFIR Toolkit

Table of contents

• Installation
• Overview of timelining tools
• Tools
  • cleanhive
  • pf2bodyfile
  • evtx2bodyfile
  • evtxanalyze
  • evtxscan
  • evtxcat
  • evtxls
  • es4forensics
  • hivescan
  • ipgrep
  • lnk2bodyfile
  • mactime2
  • mft2bodyfile
  • ntdsextract2
  • pol_export
  • procbins
  • regdump
  • regview
  • ts2date
  • usnjrnl_dump
  • zip2bodyfile

Overview of timelining tools

Installation

sudo apt install libscca-dev libssl-dev
cargo install dfir-toolkit

To generate autocompletion scripts for your shell, invoke the tool with the --autocomplete option, e.g.

mactime2 --autocomplete bash | sudo tee /etc/bash_completion.d/mactime2

would install a autocompletion script in /etc/bash_completion.d/mactime2.

Usage

Configuring the global timestamp format

Per default, the DFIR toolkit uses an RFC3339-compliant data format. If you want to, you can change the data format being used by setting the DFIR_DATE environment variable. Let's look at an example:

$ mac2time2 -b tests/data/mactime2/sample.bodyfile -d | head
1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00,0,macb,V/V---------,0,0,62447617,"/$OrphanFiles"
2022-04-18T10:28:59+00:00,4096,m...,d/drwxr-xr-x,0,0,42729473,"/proc"
2022-04-18T10:28:59+00:00,4096,m...,d/drwxr-xr-x,0,0,36306945,"/sys"
2022-04-21T00:57:50+00:00,7,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,12,"/bin -> usr/bin"
2022-04-21T00:57:50+00:00,7,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,13,"/lib -> usr/lib"
2022-04-21T00:57:50+00:00,9,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,14,"/lib32 -> usr/lib32"
2022-04-21T00:57:50+00:00,9,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,15,"/lib64 -> usr/lib64"
2022-04-21T00:57:50+00:00,10,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,16,"/libx32 -> usr/libx32"
2022-04-21T00:57:50+00:00,8,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,17,"/sbin -> usr/sbin"
2022-04-21T00:57:51+00:00,4096,m...,d/drwxr-xr-x,0,0,38010881,"/srv"

$ DFIR_DATE="%F %T (%Z)" mac2time2 -b tests/data/mactime2/sample.bodyfile -d | head
1970-01-01 00:00:00 (UTC),0,macb,V/V---------,0,0,62447617,"/$OrphanFiles"
2022-04-18 10:28:59 (UTC),4096,m...,d/drwxr-xr-x,0,0,42729473,"/proc"
2022-04-18 10:28:59 (UTC),4096,m...,d/drwxr-xr-x,0,0,36306945,"/sys"
2022-04-21 00:57:50 (UTC),7,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,12,"/bin -> usr/bin"
2022-04-21 00:57:50 (UTC),7,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,13,"/lib -> usr/lib"
2022-04-21 00:57:50 (UTC),9,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,14,"/lib32 -> usr/lib32"
2022-04-21 00:57:50 (UTC),9,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,15,"/lib64 -> usr/lib64"
2022-04-21 00:57:50 (UTC),10,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,16,"/libx32 -> usr/libx32"
2022-04-21 00:57:50 (UTC),8,m...,l/lrwxrwxrwx,0,0,17,"/sbin -> usr/sbin"
2022-04-21 00:57:51 (UTC),4096,m...,d/drwxr-xr-x,0,0,38010881,"/srv"

The value of DFIR_DATE can be any format string which can also be used in DateTime::strftime (https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/format/strftime/index.html)