alimez/artifacts

Digital Forensics Artifact Repository

Digital Forensics Artifact Repository

A free, community-sourced, machine-readable knowledge base of digital forensic artifacts that the world can use both as an information source and within other tools.

If you'd like to use the artifacts in your own tools, all you need to be able to do is read YAML. That is it, no other dependencies. The Python code in this project is just used to validate all the artifacts to make sure they follow the specification.

Project status

Travis-CI	AppVeyor	Codecov

Artifact Definitions

The artifact definitions can be found in the data directory and the format is described in detail in the Style Guide.

As of 2019-06-10 the repository contains:

File paths covered	1013
Registry keys covered	635
Total artifacts	525

Artifacts by type

ARTIFACT_GROUP	COMMAND	DIRECTORY	FILE	PATH	REGISTRY_KEY	REGISTRY_VALUE	WMI
21	9	14	283	8	50	114	26

Artifacts by OS

Darwin	Linux	Windows
33	25	23

Artifacts by label

Antivirus	Authentication	Browser	Cloud	Cloud Storage	Configuration Files	Docker	External Media	ExternalAccount	Hadoop	History Files	Logs	Mail	Network	Software	System	Users	iOS
6	18	21	2	4	41	2	2	3	1	3	46	15	15	43	104	68	5

Background/History

The ForensicArtifacts.com artifact repository was forked from the GRR project artifact collection into a stand-alone repository that is not tool-specific. The GRR developers have migrated to using this repository and make contributions here. In addition the ForensicArtifact team will begin backfilling artifacts in the new format from the ForensicArtifacts.com website.

For some background on the artifacts system and how we expect it to be used see this blackhat presentation and youtube video from the GRR team.

Contributing

Please send us your contribution! See the developers guide for instructions.

External links

• GRR Artifacts, by Greg Castle, Blackhat 2014

Contact

• [email protected]
• Artifacts channel of Open Source DFIR Slack