PassMark OSForensics - Digital investigation

Complete suite for forensic investigation

Search files fast

Extensive file type support

Recover deleted evidence

Uncover user activity

Password recovery

Reveal hidden areas on a hard disk

Browse Volume Shadow copies

OSF provides one of the fastest and most powerful ways to locate files on a Windows computer or Forensic image.
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Search within the contents of files with the use of our acclaimed indexing engine providing industry leading relevance ranking, date range searching, exact phrase matching, “Google-like” context results and more.

Investigate and search within hundreds of file types including Office and Acrobat documents, image files (with OCR), e-mails (Outlook, Thunderbird, Mozilla and more), attachments, ZIP files, and even binary files and unallocated clusters.
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OSF provide powerful tools to uncover and crack passwords on a live system or forensic image.
These include:

Web site logins and passwords (used in Chrome, Edge, IE, Firefox and Opera)
Outlook and Windows Live passwords
Saved Wifi passwords
Windows autologon password
Windows and other Microsoft product keys
Ports (Serial/Parallel)
Network adapters
Physical and optical drives
Bitlocker detection

OSF also provide tools to crack hashes with the use of rainbow tables, and dictionary attacks.
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OSF provides one of the fastest and most powerful ways to locate files on a Windows computer or Forensic image.
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OSF provide powerful tools to uncover and crack passwords on a live system or forensic image.
These include:

Web site logins and passwords (used in Chrome, Edge, IE, Firefox and Opera)
Outlook and Windows Live passwords
Saved Wifi passwords
Windows autologon password
Windows and other Microsoft product keys
Ports (Serial/Parallel)
Network adapters
Physical and optical drives
Bitlocker detection

OSF also provide tools to crack hashes with the use of rainbow tables, and dictionary attacks.
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Identify suspicious files and activity

Verify and match files

Identify changes

Timeline viewer

File analysis tools

OSF provides a comprehensive suite of tools to analyze files, emails, and system information including:

File viewer that can display streams, hex, text, images and meta data
Email viewer that can display messages directly from the archive
Registry viewer to allow easy access to Windows registry hive files
File system browserFile system browser for explorer-like navigation of supported file systems on physical drives, volumes and images
Raw disk viewerRaw disk viewer to navigate and search through the raw disk bytes on physical drives, volumes and images
Web browserWeb browser to browse and capture online content for offline evidence management
ThumbCache viewer to browse the Windows thumbnail cache database for evidence of images/files that may have once been in the system
SQLite database browser to view the and analyze the contents of SQLite database files
ESEDB viewer to view and analyze the contents of ESE DB (.edb) database files, a common storage format used by various Microsoft applications
Prefetch viewer to identify the time and frequency of applications that been running on the system, and thus recorded by the O/S's Prefetcher
Plist viewe to view the contents of Plist files commonly used by MacOS, OSX, and iOS to store settings
$UsnJrnl viewer to view the entries stored in the USN Journal which is used by NTFS to track changes to the volume

Use OSF to confirm that files have not been corrupted or tampered with by comparing hash values or identify whether an unknown file belongs to a known set of files. Verify and match files with MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 hashes. Find misnamed files where the contents don't match their extension.
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Create and compare drive signatures to identify differences and changes made on a system. OSF lets you create a forensic signature of a hard disk drive, preserving information about file and directory structures present on the system at the time of signature creation.
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OSF features a Timeline Viewer that provides a visual representation of file and system activity over time, helping you to identify date ranges where significant activity has occurred, or build up a pattern of behavior over years, months or days.
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OSF provides a comprehensive suite of tools to analyze files, emails, and system information including:

File viewer that can display streams, hex, text, images and meta data
Email viewer that can display messages directly from the archive
Registry viewer to allow easy access to Windows registry hive files
File system browserFile system browser for explorer-like navigation of supported file systems on physical drives, volumes and images
Raw disk viewerRaw disk viewer to navigate and search through the raw disk bytes on physical drives, volumes and images
Web browserWeb browser to browse and capture online content for offline evidence management
ThumbCache viewer to browse the Windows thumbnail cache database for evidence of images/files that may have once been in the system
SQLite database browser to view the and analyze the contents of SQLite database files
ESEDB viewer to view and analyze the contents of ESE DB (.edb) database files, a common storage format used by various Microsoft applications
Prefetch viewer to identify the time and frequency of applications that been running on the system, and thus recorded by the O/S's Prefetcher
Plist viewe to view the contents of Plist files commonly used by MacOS, OSX, and iOS to store settings
$UsnJrnl viewer to view the entries stored in the USN Journal which is used by NTFS to track changes to the volume

OSF provides a comprehensive suite of tools to analyze files, emails, and system information including:

File viewer that can display streams, hex, text, images and meta data
Email viewer that can display messages directly from the archive
Registry viewer to allow easy access to Windows registry hive files
File system browserFile system browser for explorer-like navigation of supported file systems on physical drives, volumes and images
Raw disk viewerRaw disk viewer to navigate and search through the raw disk bytes on physical drives, volumes and images
Web browserWeb browser to browse and capture online content for offline evidence management
ThumbCache viewer to browse the Windows thumbnail cache database for evidence of images/files that may have once been in the system
SQLite database browser to view the and analyze the contents of SQLite database files
ESEDB viewer to view and analyze the contents of ESE DB (.edb) database files, a common storage format used by various Microsoft applications
Prefetch viewer to identify the time and frequency of applications that been running on the system, and thus recorded by the O/S's Prefetcher
Plist viewe to view the contents of Plist files commonly used by MacOS, OSX, and iOS to store settings
$UsnJrnl viewer to view the entries stored in the USN Journal which is used by NTFS to track changes to the volume

Manage your digital investigation

Create case

Generate Report

Storage device management

Drive and system imaging

Audit trace

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Organize all the evidence you have discovered into a single, cryptographically secure case file.
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Export your case file as an accessible and customizable report showing all evidence associated with the case. Deliver a readable summary of forensic findings to clients or law enforcement agents at any point in your investigation.
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Create and restore disk images of evidence disks, to support forensics analysis without risking the integrity of the original data.
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Rebuild a complete RAID image from a set of RAID member disk images.
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Make exact copies of the partitions or drives of an active system. Useful for live acquisitions while running OSF from your USB drive.
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Create and restore disk images of evidence disks, to support forensics analysis without risking the integrity of the original data.
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Rebuild a complete RAID image from a set of RAID member disk images.
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Make exact copies of the partitions or drives of an active system. Useful for live acquisitions while running OSF from your USB drive.
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