Top 10 Cybercrime Investigation and Forensic Tools

Cybercrime investigations methods provide a number of resources, depending on the strategies that you use and the process that you are going through. However, most of these methods are committed to data forensic analysis until you have the evidence in hand.

1. SIFT Workstation: is a forensic tool collection created to help incident response teams and forensic researchers examine digital forensic data on several systems.
   
   
2. The Sleuth Kit: Written by Brian Carrier and known as TSK, The Sleuth Kit is an open-source collection of Unix- and Windows-based forensic tools that help researchers analyze disk images and recover files from those devices.
   
   
3. X-Ways Forensics: This software is one of the most complete forensic suites for Windows-based operating systems. Its main features include the ability to perform disk cloning and imaging, read partitions from raw image files, HDDs, RAID arrays, LVM2, and much more.
   
   
4. CAINE: is not a simple cybercrime investigation application or a suite, it’s a full Linux distribution used for digital forensic analysis. It works from the live CD and can help you extract data created on multiple operating systems such as Linux, Unix, and Windows.
   
   
5. Digital Forensics Framework: Known as DFF, the Digital Forensics Framework is computer forensics open-source software that allows digital forensics professionals to discover and save system activity on both Windows and Linux operating systems.
   
   
6. Oxygen Forensic Detective: This tool is one of the best multi-platform forensic applications used by security researchers and forensic professionals to browse all the critical data in a single place.
   
   
7. Open Computer Forensics Architecture: It has been integrated into or is part of the core of many other popular cybercrime investigation tools such as The Sleuth Kit, Scalpel, PhotoRec, and others.
   
   
8. Bulk Extractor: It works by extracting features like URLs, email addresses, credit card numbers, and much more from ISO disk images and directories or simply files—including images, videos, office-based and compressed files.
   
   
9. ExifTool: Written in Perl, this forensic tool developed by Phil Harvey is a command-line-based utility that can read, write, and manipulate metadata from several media files such as images and videos.
   ​
   
10. SurfaceBrowser™: is your perfect ally for detecting the full online infrastructure of any company, and getting valuable intelligence data from DNS records, domain names and their historical WHOIS records, exposed subdomains, SSL certificates data, and more.