Awesome Incident Response
by meirwah · meirwah/awesome-incident-response
A curated list of tools and resources for security incident response.
AWindows Batch script that uses a set of tools and output files to make a system look as if it was compromised.
ASmall and highly portable detection tests mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework.
AAutomated Tactics Techniques & Procedures. Re-running complex sequences manually for regression tests, product evaluations, generate data for researchers.
CAutomated adversary emulation system that performs post-compromise adversarial behavior within Windows Enterprise networks. It generates plans during operation using a planning system and a pre-configured adversary model based on the Adversarial Tactics, Techniques & Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) project.
DModular, menu-driven, cross-platform tool for building repeatable, time-delayed, distributed security events. Easily create custom event chains for Blue Team drills and sensor / alert mapping. Red Teams can create decoy incidents, distractions, and lures to support and scale their operations.
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NLightweight utility used to generate malicious network traffic and help security teams to evaluate security controls and network visibility.
RRTA provides a framework of scripts designed to allow blue teams to test their detection capabilities against malicious tradecraft, modeled after MITRE ATT&CK.
RThe toolkit will quickly extract digital evidence from multiple sources by analyzing hard drives, drive images, memory dumps, iOS, Blackberry and Android backups, UFED, JTAG and chip-off dumps.
CSuite of CIM/WMI-based tools that enable the ability to perform incident response and hunting operations remotely across all versions of Windows.
CCIRTKit is not just a collection of tools, but also a framework to aid in the ongoing unification of Incident Response and Forensics investigation processes.
Cyber Triage collects and analyzes host data to determine if it is compromised. It's scoring system and recommendation engine allow you to quickly focus on the important artifacts. It can import data from its collection tool, disk images, and other collectors (such as KAPE). It can run on an examiner's desktop or in a server model. Developed by Sleuth Kit Labs, which also makes Autopsy.
CDeep research agent for your infra - sandboxed, read-only, covers AWS, GCP, Azure, K8s, GitHub and GitLab.
DDissect is a digital forensics & incident response framework and toolset that allows you to quickly access and analyse forensic artefacts from various disk and file formats, developed by Fox-IT (part of NCC Group).
Dosquery fleet manager that allows remote management of osquery configurations retrieved by nodes. It takes advantage of osquery's TLS configuration, logger, and distributed read/write endpoints, to give administrators visibility across a fleet of devices with minimal overhead and intrusiveness.
FExtendable Windows-based application that provides workflow automation, case management and security response functionality.
FA fully customizable, Windows-based security distribution for malware analysis, incident response, penetration testing.
FState of the art host monitoring platform tailored for security experts. Leveraging Facebook's battle-tested osquery project, Fleetdm delivers continuous updates, features and fast answers to big questions.
GIncident response framework focused on remote live forensics. It consists of a python agent (client) that is installed on target systems, and a python server infrastructure that can manage and talk to the agent. Besides the included Python API client, PowerGRR provides an API client library in PowerShell working on Windows, Linux and macOS for GRR automation and scripting.
IIRIS is a web collaborative platform for incident response analysts allowing to share investigations at a technical level.
KEndpoint security platform composed of a collection of small projects all working together that gives you a cross-platform (Windows, OSX, Linux, Android and iOS) low-level environment for managing and pushing additional modules into memory to extend its functionality.
MOpen source serverless security lake platform on AWS that lets you ingest, store, and analyze petabytes of security data into an Apache Iceberg data lake and run realtime Python detections as code.
MAutomates the security incident handling process and facilitate the real-time activities of incident handlers.
MCLI program for automating the setup, configuration, and use of cybersecurity solutions.
NApplication built for asynchronous forensic data presentation using ElasticSearch as the backend. It's designed to ingest Redline collections.
Another popular distributed open-source computer forensics framework. This framework was built on Linux platform and uses postgreSQL database for storing data.
Easily ask questions about your Linux and macOS infrastructure using a SQL-like query language; the provided incident-response pack helps you detect and respond to breaches.
Provides host investigative capabilities to users to find signs of malicious activity through memory and file analysis, and the development of a threat assessment profile.
SA powerful and user-friendly browser extension that streamlines investigations for security professionals.
Unix and Windows based tool which helps in forensic analysis of computers. It comes with various tools which helps in digital forensics. These tools help in analyzing disk images, performing in-depth analysis of file systems, and various other things.
Scalable 3-in-1 open source and free solution designed to make life easier for SOCs, CSIRTs, CERTs and any information security practitioner dealing with security incidents that need to be investigated and acted upon swiftly.
VCross-platform incident response toolkit with 28 pre-built use cases in a single zero-install binary. Collects memory, disk, network, and cloud artifacts with automated timeline generation.
VForensics tool for Disk cloning and imaging. It can be used to find deleted files and disk analysis.
ZCombines osquery's powerful endpoint inventory features with a flexible notification and action framework. This enables one to identify and react to changes on OS X and Linux clients.
ADetecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory.
IGreat reference to build an incident response plan based also on Threat Intelligence. By Roberto Martinez.
PThe definitive guide to practice memory forensics. By Svetlana Ostrovskaya and Oleg Skulkin.
TRichard Bejtlich's book on IR.
Community of 8,000+ working professionals from Law Enforcement, Private Sector, and Forensic Vendors. Additionally, plenty of students and hobbyists! Guide here.
Forensics tool whose main purpose is to preview recoverable data from a disk of any kind. FTK Imager can also acquire live memory and paging file on 32bit and 64bit systems.
BBitscout by Vitaly Kamluk helps you build your fully-trusted customizable LiveCD/LiveUSB image to be used for remote digital forensics (or perhaps any other task of your choice). It is meant to be transparent and monitorable by the owner of the system, forensically sound, customizable and compact.
Windows based program that will acquire, convert, or verify a forensic image in one of the following common forensic file formats.
ACQUIRE by Magnet Forensics allows various types of disk acquisitions to be performed on Windows, Linux, and OS X as well as mobile operating systems.
AAcquire is a tool to quickly gather forensic artifacts from disk images or a live system into a lightweight container. This makes Acquire an excellent tool to, among others, speedup the process of digital forensic triage. It uses Dissect to gather that information from the raw disk, if possible.
AThe artifactcollector project provides a software that collects forensic artifacts on systems.
BComputer forensics tool that scans a disk image, a file, or a directory of files and extracts useful information without parsing the file system or file system structures. Because of ignoring the file system structure, the program distinguishes itself in terms of speed and thoroughness.
CStreamlined list of parsers to quickly analyze a forensic image file (dd, E01, .vmdk, etc) and output nine reports.
CThe CyLR tool collects forensic artifacts from hosts with NTFS file systems quickly, securely and minimizes impact to the host.
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IWindows Batch script and a Unix Bash script to comprehensively collect host forensic data during incident response.
Automated tool that collects volatile data from Windows, OSX, and \nix based operating systems.
MCommand line utility (that works with or without Amazon EC2 instances) to parallelize remote memory acquisition.
SAcquire, triage and investigate remote evidence via portable iSCSI readonly access
UUAC (Unix-like Artifacts Collector) is a Live Response collection script for Incident Response that makes use of native binaries and tools to automate the collection of AIX, Android, ESXi, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, NetScaler, OpenBSD and Solaris systems artifacts.
CA free SOAR system that helps to automate alert handling and incident response processes.
Paloalto security orchestration, automation and response platform with full Incident lifecycle management and many integrations to enhance automations.
Community and commercial incident management tool with Need-to-Know built in to support GDPR compliance while handling sensitive incidents.
Cyphon eliminates the headaches of incident management by streamlining a multitude of related tasks through a single platform. It receives, processes and triages events to provide an all-encompassing solution for your analytic workflow — aggregating data, bundling and prioritizing alerts, and empowering analysts to investigate and document incidents.
DIncident Response tracking application handling one or more incidents via cases and tasks with a lot of affected systems and artifacts.
DA framework for orchestrating forensic collection, processing and data export.
FCybersecurity incident management platform designed with agility and speed in mind. It allows for easy creation, tracking, and reporting of cybersecurity incidents and is useful for CSIRTs, CERTs and SOCs alike.
Request Tracker for Incident Response (RTIR) is the premier open source incident handling system targeted for computer security teams. We worked with over a dozen CERT and CSIRT teams around the world to help you handle the ever-increasing volume of incident reports. RTIR builds on all the features of Request Tracker.
SIncident Response collaboration and knowledge capture tool focused on flexibility and ease of use. Our goal is to add value to the incident response process without burdening the user.
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TLightweight investigation notebook that allows security researchers the ability to register and retrieve indicators related to their research.
Zenduty is a novel incident management platform providing end-to-end incident alerting, on-call management and response orchestration, giving teams greater control and automation over the incident management lifecycle.
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WCCyLR CDQR Forensics Virtual Machine (CCF-VM): An all-in-one solution to parsing collected data, making it easily searchable with built-in common searches, enable searching of single and multiple hosts simultaneously.
Contains numerous tools that help investigators during their analysis, including forensic evidence collection.
Linux distribution that includes a vast collection of best-of-breed open source network security applications useful to the network security professional.
NSecurity-focused Linux distribution with 140+ pre-installed forensic and offensive security tools, custom hardened kernel, and integrated incident response workflows.
Modified Linux distribution to perform various forensics task in a forensically sound manner. It comes with many open source forensics tools included.
Demonstrates that advanced incident response capabilities and deep dive digital forensic techniques to intrusions can be accomplished using cutting-edge open-source tools that are freely available and frequently updated.
SSpecial Linux distro aimed at network security monitoring featuring advanced analysis tools.
VMware-based appliance used for digital investigation and acquisition and is built entirely from public domain software. Among the tools contained in ADIA are Autopsy, the Sleuth Kit, the Digital Forensics Framework, log2timeline, Xplico, and Wireshark. Most of the system maintenance uses Webmin. It is designed for small-to-medium sized digital investigations and acquisitions. The appliance runs under Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. Both i386 (32-bit) and x8664 (64-bit) versions are available.
FFastIR for Linux collects different artifacts on live Linux and records the results in CSV files.
MFast memory acquisition open source tool for Linux written in Rust. Generate full memory crash dumps of Linux machines.
AAppCompatProcessor has been designed to extract additional value from enterprise-wide AppCompat / AmCache data beyond the classic stacking and grepping techniques.
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CChainsaw provides a powerful ‘first-response’ capability to quickly identify threats within Windows event logs.
View, analyze and monitor events recorded in Microsoft Windows event logs with this GUI tool.
HHayabusa is a Windows event log fast forensics timeline generator and threat hunting tool created by the Yamato Security group in Japan.
Threat intelligence fusion and analysis tool that integrates threat data feeds with SIEM solutions. Users can immediately leverage threat intelligence for security monitoring and incident report (IR) activities in the workflow of their existing security operations.
Execute SQL queries against structured log data: server logs, Windows Events, file system, Active Directory, log4net logs, comma/tab separated text, XML or JSON files. Also provides a GUI to Microsoft LogParser 2.2 with powerful UI elements: syntax editor, data grid, chart, pivot table, dashboard, query manager and more.
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LTool to investigate malicious Windows logon by visualizing and analyzing Windows event log.
LNHigh-speed log analysis and forensics tool with multi-format parsing, pattern matching, timeline reconstruction and anomaly detection for incident response.
SGeneric signature format for SIEM systems already containing an extensive ruleset.
SServerless, real-time log data analysis framework, capable of ingesting custom data sources and triggering alerts using user-defined logic.
SSysmonSearch makes Windows event log analysis more effective and less time consuming by aggregation of event logs.
WWindows Event Log Analyzer aims to be the Swiss Army knife for Windows event logs.
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LLoadable Kernel Module (LKM), which allows the acquisition of volatile memory from Linux and Linux-based devices, formerly called DMD.
MMalConfScan is a Volatility plugin extracts configuration data of known malware. Volatility is an open-source memory forensics framework for incident response and malware analysis. This tool searches for malware in memory images and dumps configuration data. In addition, this tool has a function to list strings to which malicious code refers.
Free memory forensic software that helps incident responders find evil in live memory. Memoryze can acquire and/or analyze memory images, and on live systems, can include the paging file in its analysis.
Memoryze for Mac is Memoryze but then for Macs. A lower number of features, however.
OOrochi is an open source framework for collaborative forensic memory dump analysis.
Open source tool (and library) for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples.
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VAutomation tool for researchers cuts all the guesswork and manual tasks out of the binary extraction phase, or to help the investigator in the first steps of performing a memory analysis investigation.
VMemory forensics and reverse engineering tool used for analyzing volatile memory offering the capability of analyzing the Windows kernel, drivers, DLLs, and virtual and physical memory.
Tiny free forensic tool to reliably extract the entire content of the computer’s volatile memory – even if protected by an active anti-debugging or anti-dumping system.
LFast memory acquisition tool for Windows (x86, x64, ARM64). Generate full memory crash dumps of Windows machines.
Free imaging tool designed to capture the physical memory of a suspect’s computer. Supports recent versions of Windows.
Tool to acquire live memory on 32-bit and 64-bit systems. A dump of an individual process’s memory space or physical memory dump can be done.
Displays persistent items(scripts, commands, binaries, etc.) that are set to execute automatically on OSX.
MPlugin based forensics framework for quick mac triage that works on live machines, disk images or individual artifact files.
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OA tool to view the events in Apple Endpoint Security Framework (ESF) in real time.
ACollection of Event ID resources useful for Digital Forensics and Incident Response.
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DAn updated list of forensic tools created by Eric Zimmerman, an instructor for SANS institute.
LCortex allows you to analyze observables such as IP and email addresses, URLs, domain names, files or hashes one by one or in bulk mode using a Web interface. Analysts can also automate these operations using its REST API.
Web-based tool which combines an analytic engine with a cyber threat database.
DDFIR tool developed by Netflix's SIRT that allows an investigator to quickly scope a compromise across cloud instances (Linux instances on AWS, currently) during an incident and efficiently triaging those instances for followup actions by showing differences against a baseline.
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ICommand line utility and Python package to ease the (un)mounting of forensic disk images.
Real-time IP reputation and email validation API for investigating suspicious interactions. Returns an Interaction Trust Score (0-100) combining VPN/proxy/Tor detection with email risk assessment in a single API call.
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PPowerSponse is a PowerShell module focused on targeted containment and remediation during security incident response.
PVery simple multi-threaded many-rules to many-files YARA scanning Python script for malware zoos and IR.
Unconventional remote acquisition and triaging tool that allows triage a disk of a remote computer (client) that is restarted with a purposely built forensic operating system.
RAllows one to scan disks and memory for IOCs using YARA on Windows, Linux and OS X.
Security tool that lets Amazon Web Services administrators assess their environment's security posture.
SThreat hunter based on osquery and Salt Open (SaltStack) that can issue ad-hoc or distributed queries without the need for osquery's tls plugin. sqhunter allows you to query open network sockets and check them against threat intelligence sources.
SPacket capture solution which aims to quickly spool all packets to disk, then provide simple, fast access to subsets of those packets. It stores as much history as it possible, managing disk usage, and deleting when disk limits are hit. It's ideal for capturing the traffic just before and during an incident, without the need explicit need to store all of the network traffic.
SSysmon configuration file template with default high-quality event tracing
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TExtended traceroute to support the activities of CSIRT (or CERT) operators. Usually CSIRT team have to handle incidents based on IP addresses received. Created by Computer Emergency Response Center Luxembourg.
Windows utility (poorly maintained or no longer maintained) to submit virus samples to AV vendors.
AAWS IR Runbook Samples meant to be customized per each entity using them. The three samples are: "DoS or DDoS attack", "credential leakage", and "unintended access to an Amazon S3 bucket".
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GA collection of Cyber Incident Response Playbook Battle Cards
Documents that describe parts of the PagerDuty Incident Response process. It provides information not only on preparing for an incident, but also what to do during and after. Source is available on GitHub.
PPhantom Community Playbooks for Splunk but also customizable for other use.
TPlaybook to aid the development of techniques and hypothesis for hunting campaigns.
Tool that lets you dump the memory contents of a process to a file without stopping the process.
Interactive online malware analysis service for dynamic and static research of most types of threats using any environment.
Cdetects capabilities in executable files. You run it against a PE, ELF, .NET module, or shellcode file and it tells you what it thinks the program can do.
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GIntezer Analyze dives into Windows binaries to detect micro-code similarities to known threats, in order to provide accurate yet easy-to-understand results.
Joe Sandbox detects and analyzes potential malicious files and URLs on Windows, Android, Mac OS, Linux, and iOS for suspicious activities; providing comprehensive and detailed analysis reports.
MStatic analysis framework that automates the process of extracting key characteristics from a number of different file formats.
Free threat intelligence platform providing multiscanning, data sanitization and vulnerability assessment of files.
RSA machine learning tool that ranks strings based on their relevance for malware analysis.
Cloud based threat analysis platform which include sandbox, CDR and interactive analysis for researchers.
Valkyrie uses run-time behavior and hundreds of features from a file to perform analysis.
VPython based binary analysis and management framework, that works well with Cuckoo and YARA.
Free online service that analyzes files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and website scanners.
VOpen source visualization library and command line tools for logs (Cuckoo, Procmon, more to come).
FSimple IOC scanner. It allows scanning any Linux/Unix/OSX system for IOCs in plain bash. Created by the creators of THOR and LOKI.
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APlatform developed to build easily a detailed timeline of an incident.
Free Tool available from Fire/Mandiant that will depict log/text file that can highlight areas on the graphic, that corresponded to a key word or phrase. Good for time lining an infection and what was done post compromise.
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AFramework/scripting tool to standardize and simplify the process of scripting live acquisition utilities for Windows.
Lightweight Windows console application designed to aid in the gathering of system information for incident response and security engagements. It features numerous modules and output formats.
DFIR ORC is a collection of specialized tools dedicated to reliably parse and collect critical artifacts such as the MFT, registry hives or event logs. DFIR ORC collects data, but does not analyze it: it is not meant to triage machines. It provides a forensically relevant snapshot of machines running Microsoft Windows. The code can be found on GitHub.
FTool that collects different artifacts on live Windows systems and records the results in csv files. With the analyses of these artifacts, an early compromise can be detected.
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HCollecting the most valuable artifacts for forensics or incident response investigations.
IInvoke-LiveResponse is a live response tool for targeted collection.
Free tool from Mandiant for collecting host system data and reporting the presence of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs). Support for Windows only. No longer maintained. Only fully supported up to Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2.
All-in-one IR Evidence Collector which captures RAM Image, $MFT, EventLogs, WMI Scripts, Registry Hives, System Restore Points and much more. It is FREE, lightning fast and easy to use.
IKroll Artifact Parser and Extractor (KAPE) by Eric Zimmerman. A triage tool that finds the most prevalent digital artifacts and then parses them quickly. Great and thorough when time is of the essence.
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PPSRecon gathers data from a remote Windows host using PowerShell (v2 or later), organizes the data into folders, hashes all extracted data, hashes PowerShell and various system properties, and sends the data off to the security team. The data can be pushed to a share, sent over email, or retained locally.
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