Top 9 Cyber Crime Investigation Software

Criminal justice agencies, National security agencies, Private security agencies, etc are some of the agencies that uses cyber crime software for investigation purposes. Therefore, the cyber crime software analysis tools provides various techniques and utilities that allows the forensic analysis of data. However, the tools for each type of cyber crime may vary and hence, there are numerous investigation tools that are available. Nevertheless, in this article we have listed a handful of them that might be helpful in forensic analysis. 

SIFT Workstation

This tool allows you to inspect digital forensic data. Therefore, the purpose of this tool is to provide assistance to forensic researchers and incident response team examining the data on multiple system. Some of the file systems it supports are 

• FAT 12/16/32 
• RAW data
• HFS+
• EXT2/3/4
• NTFS
• UFS1/2v
• Vmdk
• RAM dta
• Swap

 In addition, this tool also supports evidence images and works flawlessly with

• Expert Witness Format, EnCase
• Single raw image files
• AFF with external metadata 
• Advanced Forensic Format

SIFT also includes important features such as

• Ubuntu LTS 16.04 64 bit base system
• Up-to-date forensic tools
• Cross compatibility between Microsoft Windows and Linux
• Option to install stand-alone system
• Vast documentation that fulfills your forensic requirments

 The most beneficial point of this investigation tool is that it is completely free and open source.

Sleuth Kit

The Sleuth Kit is also an open source forensic tools which is Windows-based and is also known as TSK. With the help of this cyber crime investigation software researchers can easily recover deleted files and analyze disk images. Also, the full parsing support of various file system is one of the most important features of this tool. And thus, it allows you to analyze any disk or image for Linux, Windows and Unix operating system. 

X-Ways Forensics

This cyber crime investigation software is a complete forensic package for Windows operating systems. Moreover, it supports almost all the versions of Windows, and therefore, is the best in the industry. Thus, this software enables you to work with:

• Windows XP/2003
• Vista/2008/7/8/8.1/2012/10*
• Supports both 32 Bit/64 Bit

What makes it relatively cool is its portability. Also, you can run the software using a memory stick and carry it from one computer to the other with ease. Some of the main features of this cyber crime software are:

• Disk cloning
• Imaging
• Read partitions from HDDS, raw image files, RAID arrays, LVM2
• Detect deleted partitions on FAT12/16/32,  NTFS, exFAT, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, TFAT,etc.
• File carving
• File and directory catalog creation

CAINE

This specific software is quite complex in comparison to the above. It can be used to extract datas from Unix, Windows and Linux operating system for digital forensic analysis. 

CAINE is also beneficial as the software runs on GUI-based interfaces as well as on command-line. Also, the software includes well-known cyber crime investigation tools such as:

• The Sleuth Kit
• Autopsy
• Wireshark
• PhotoRec
• Tinfoleak 

PALADIN

PALADIN is the one and only perfect assistant for every cyber crime investigator. It helps you in streamlining various forensic activities and has a gallery of more than 100 tools. In fact, it is one of fthe most renown tools and is mostly preferred by corporate, military, law enforcement, federal and state agencies. 

ProDiscover Forensic

ProDiscover Forensic is commonly used in incident response and computer forensics. The most beneficial feature of this software is that it can handle forensic investigation of every aspect. It enables the investigator to efficiently

• Collect and uncover files
• Process, protect and analyze data
• Creation of evidence data

Besides, the suite also offers an array of tools that can can be used for diagnostic purposes such as exploring evidence, and extraction of data. Some of the main features are:

• Extensive automation
• Cloud forensic
• Memory forensic
• Previews of files without data alteration
• Examining data 

Digital Forensics Framework

The Digital Forensics Framework works both on Linux and Windows operating software. Besides, it is an open source forensic software that enables researchers to access both remote and local devices which includes

• Removable drives
• Local drives
• Remote server file systems
• Reconstruct VMware virtual disks

Moreover, it also allows you to extract data from both NTFS, FAT12/16/32, and EXT 2/3/4,from active as well as deleted files, directories, etc. It also enables you to recover and examine data from memory sticks that includes local files, network connections, and processes.

Oxygen Forensic Detective

With the Oxygen Forensic Detective, both forensic professionals ad security researchers can easily lay their hands on critical data. In fact, it is a popular multi-platform forensic applications that allows you to extract data from various computer operating systems, mobile devices and even drones. It enables you to

• Grab passwords from OS backups
• Screen lock bypass on Android
• Collection of critical data
• Extract flight data from drones
• User information from Linux, MacOS and Windows computers
• IoT device data extraction

Bulk Extractor

One of the best apps that helps you to collect collect critical information is the Bulk Extractor. It can extract digital forensic data from

URLs

Email addresses

Credit card numbers 

ISO disk images

Directories

Files such as videos, office-based, compressed files and images

Furthermore, this tool allows you to collect and analyze data. It supports almost all operating system which include Mac, Linux, Unix, and Windows.