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sleuthkit-4.15.0

forensic toolkit based on TCT

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Description

The Sleuth Kit (previously known as TASK) is the only open source forensic toolkit for a complete analysis of Microsoft and UNIX file systems. It enables investigators to identify and recover evidence from images acquired during incident response or from live systems. Some of its features: * Analyzes images generated by the open source 'dd' utility, found on all UNIX systems and available for Windows systems. * Supports the NTFS, FAT, FFS, and EXT2FS file systems. Images of a different endian ordering than the analysis system can be used. * The tools are organized in a layered approach, where the names in each layer start with the same letter to help the user identify the function of the tool. The layers include File System, File Name (directory entries and NTFS index trees), Meta-Data (UNIX inodes and NTFS MFT entries), and Content (blocks and clusters). * Identifies deleted files by name and location. * Identifies the status of content units (blocks and clusters) and meta-data structures. * Maps the relationship of objects across different layers.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/sleuthkit
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@openbsd.org>
Categories
sysutils, security
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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