triage-collector

triage-collector is a triage collection tool for fast forensic. It collects various artifacts on Windows. You can extend additional artifacts without compilation as well as pre-defined artifacts.

• RAM
  • with WinPmem
  • with Magnet DumpIt for Windows (needed to place the binary and uncomment the line and comment out the WinPmem lines in triage-collector.ini)
• NTFS
  • $MFT
  • $Logfile
  • $SECURE:$SDS
  • $UsnJrnl:$J
• swap files
  • pagefile.sys
  • swapfile.sys
• Prefetch
• Event log
• Registry
  • Amcache.hve
  • SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM, DEFAULT
  • NTUser.dat, UsrClass.dat
    • for users and service profiles
  • TxR transaction logs
• WMI
• SRUM
• Web
  • History (Chrome)
  • cookies.sqlite, places.sqlite (Firefox)
  • WebCacheV01.dat (IE and Edge)
  • History (Edge)
• Windows.old (if this folder exists)
• User-defined data (under each user and the root directory)
  • Pre-defined rules
    • startup
    • tasks
    • Intune
    • SUM
    • Windows Timeline
    • ntds.dit
    • sysvol
    • RDP cache
    • PowerShell Console History
    • $Recycle.bin
    • Thumb cache and Icon cache
    • Search Indexor
    • Thunderbird (needed to uncomment the line)
    • Outlook (needed to uncomment the line)
    • PCA (Program Compatibility Assistant)
    • BITS database

triage-collector was based on cdir-collector. Since the author ignored my PR, I decided to fork it and modified it a lot. The differences between this and the original cdir-collector v1.3.6 are:

• To support arbitrally file acquisition
  • Pre-defined artifacts are listed above.
• To support additional artifacts
  • swap files
  • NTFS $Logfile
  • TxR registry transaction
• To support recursive acquisition
• To support 64bit on the triage-collector and ntfsparsedll binaries
• To support acquireing multi-byte files
• To load appropriate winpmem binary automatically according to the platform of the running OS
• New ini parser named inipp
• New ini format
• Refactored many functions
• Changed the import method of the functions on ntfsparsedll

Since I modified and newly created many functions, please test it before using it.

Download

Binary is available on the following link.

https://github.com/herosi/triage-collector/releases

Build

If you want to customise and build binary from source code, try to use Visual Studio 2019.

Component of triage-collector:

• triage-collector.ini
• triage-collector.exe
• NTFSParserDLL.dll
• libcrypto-41.dll
• libssl-43.dll
• winpmem_mini_x64_rc2.exe
• winpmem_mini_x86.exe
• winpmem.exe (old stuff, optional)
• winpmem-2.1.post4.exe (old stuff, optional)

How to use

All of component files place into USB stick or file server, then double-click triage-collector.exe. triage-collector requires administrative privilege. It creates "COMPUTERNAME_YYYYMMDDhhmmss" folder then collected data are stored on this folder.

If you edit triage-collector.ini, you can switch the acquisition of each data type. You can also add user-defined rules in "[Users]" and "[System]" section.

Third Party

triage-collector depends on the following library/tools.

• Library: NTFSParserDLL, LibreSSL and inipp,

• Tool: winpmem

  • winpmem.exe is a part of c-aff4 project (https://github.com/Velocidex/c-aff4).
  • winpmem_mini_x64_rc2.exe and winpmem_mini_x86.exe are from https://github.com/Velocidex/WinPmem
  • winpmem-2.1.post4.exe is a part of rekall project (https://github.com/google/rekall).

• Tool: Magnet DumpIt for Windows (optional) You can download Magnet DumpIt for Windows from https://www.magnetforensics.com/resources/magnet-dumpit-for-windows/

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