Plaso
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| Maintainer: | Kristinn Gudjonsson, Joachim Metz |
| OS: | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows |
| Genre: | Analysis |
| License: | APL |
| Website: | code.google.com/p/plaso/ |
Plaso (plaso langar að safna öllu) is the Python based back-end engine used by tools such as log2timeline for automatic creation of a super timelines. The goal of log2timeline (and thus plaso) is to provide a single tool that can parse various log files and forensic artifacts from computers and related systems, such as network equipment to produce a single correlated timeline. This timeline can then be easily analysed by forensic investigators/analysts, speeding up investigations by correlating the vast amount of information found on an average computer system. Plaso is intended to be applied for creating super timelines but also supports creating targeted timelines.
The Plaso project site also provides 4n6time, formerly "l2t_Review", which is a cross-platform forensic tool for timeline creation and review by David Nides.
Contents
Supported Formats
Storage Media Image File Formats
Storage Medis Image File Format support is provided by dfvfs.
Volume System Formats
Volume System Format support is provided by dfvfs.
File System Formats
File System Format support is provided by dfvfs.
File Formats
- Binary property list (plist) format using binplist
- Internet Explorer History File Format (also known as MSIE 4 - 9 Cache Files or index.dat) using libmsiecf
- Windows Event Log (EVT) using libevt
- Windows NT Registry File (REGF) using libregf
- Windows Shortcut File (LNK) format using liblnk
- Windows XML Event Log (EVTX) using libevtx
- Syslog
History
Plaso is a Python-based rewrite of the Perl-based log2timeline initially created by Kristinn Gudjonsson. Plaso builds upon the SleuthKit, libyal and other projects.
