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Tools: built a forensics documentation tool because my university course drove me crazy I
2026-04-06 0 views admin
I'm not a professional forensics investigator, just a security student who had a university course on digital forensics last summer and got increasingly frustrated with one specific part of it: not the investigation, but the documentation. Every tool, every command, every hash, manually noted. Timestamps written essentially by hand. Chain of custody as an afterthought. My colleagues felt the same way. So we built something to fix it. forensic-log-tracker wraps your forensic commands, whatever you can do in a shell, and automatically produces timestamped, SHA256-hashed, GPG-signed investigation logs. One command at the end generates a complete case report in Markdown. It also provides explanations, as report readers are hardly ever experts, so for your commands you get structures like: Explanations and configs can be adjusted to your needs in YAML files that come along with your install. I'd love if you checked it out and gave me feedback. One thing might be a PDF report option? All it can do can be found in the README :D. To provide a bit of context, I wrote a beginner forensics guide around it, dd, Foremost, Scalpel, strings, the works. There's a pre-built practice image to download and work through, and three interactive quizzes embedded in the post. Full guide with interactive exercises And if you use a forensic tool that's not in the explanations.yaml yet, PRs are very welcome. ⭐ github.com/mev0lent/forensic-log-tracker Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Are you sure you want to ? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
