Autopsy

Autopsy is a digital forensics platform to analyze disk images

Autopsy’s Main Features

  • Multi-User Cases: Collaborate with your fellow examiners on large cases.

  • Keyword Search: Text extraction and the index searched modules allow you to find the files which mention specific terms and find the regular expression patterns.

  • Timeline Analysis: Displays system events in a graphical interface to help identify activity. Web Artefacts: Extracts web activity from common browsers to help identify user activity.

  • LNK File Analysis: Identifies shortcuts and accessed documents.

  • Email Analysis: Parses MBOX format messages, such as Thunderbird. Registry Analysis: Uses RegRipper to identify recently accessed documents and USB devices. EXIF: Extracts geolocation and camera information from JPEG files.

  • File Type Sorting: Group files by their type to find all images or documents.

  • Media Playback: View videos and images in the application and not require an external viewer.

  • Thumbnail viewer: Displays thumbnail of images to help quick view pictures.

  • Robust File System Analysis: Support for common file systems, including NTFS, FAT12/FAT16/FAT32/ExFAT, HFS+, ISO9660 (CD-ROM), Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, Yaffs2, and UFS from The Sleuth Kit.

  • Hash Set Filtering: Filter known good files using NSRL and flags known bad files using custom hash sets in HashKeeper, md5sum, and EnCase formats.

  • Tags: Tag files with arbitrary tag names, such as ‘bookmark’ or ‘suspicious’, and add comments.

  • Unicode Strings Extraction: Extracts strings from unallocated space and unknown file types in many languages (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc.).

  • File Type Detection based on signatures and extension mismatch detection.

  • Interesting Files Module will flag files and folders based on name and path.

  • Android Support: Extracts data from SMS, call logs, contacts, Tango, Words with Friends, and more.

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