forensicassistant's Introduction

Forensic Assistant

This is a web app project made as a tool in aiding digital forensic investigations. It takes a facebook user's privately accessible security.htm file, then parses it for relevant information such as the user's IP addresses from wherever the user triggered some facebook events (login/post/like). With the parsed data, it runs it through the "whois" API to retreive valuable forensic information regarding the ip addresses received. It then displays the data received from the API on a table in a readable fashion using ReactJS.

Usage

First clone the repo,
(Optional) then replace the placeholder security.htm file with your own,
then in a terminal in the repository directory run

$ npm run full-install

// When finished installing run
$ npm run start

Skills used

Javascript ES6
React JS
Node JS
Express
Cheerio
Axios
Regex
Git
Coffee-script

Notable Features

Uses nodeJS and Express router to create a server that sends the parsed data to the front end
Uses cheerio module to parse the relevant data in the back end
Uses regex when parsing to data to filter the important information
Uses Whois API to retreive user information when given IP Addresses
Uses IpLocations API to retreive user locations given IP Addresses
Displays notable information in a ReactJS Table with the option to click on a specific IP Address for more detailed information retreieved from the Whois API

What I learned

Using cheerio to parse data
Using regex to filter relevant info
Setting up a proxy in the package.json to connect back end and front end when using axios
Sending data from back end to front end and fetching it with axios
Using tables in ReactJS to display Data
Editting a node module to make it better usable for the project (fork through github and npm install the repo)

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