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Chainsaw

Forensics & Incident Response

Chainsaw provides a powerful ‘first-response’ capability to quickly identify threats within Windows event logs.

Rust Latest v2.16.2 · 17d ago Security brief →

Features

  • Hunt threats using Sigma detection rules and custom Chainsaw rules
  • Search forensic artefacts with string matching and regex patterns
  • Create execution timelines from Shimcache and Amcache data
  • Analyse SRUM database for insights

Recent releases

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No immediate action
v2.16.2 Bugfix

Sigma‑to‑Tau fix

No immediate action
v2.16.1 Bug fix

Sigma‑Tau translation fix

v2.16.0 New feature
Notable features
  • Adds an EVTX summary command
Full changelog

This release contains the following changes of note:

  • Adds an EVTX summary command (https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw/pull/231)
  • Brings in some fixes from the MFT library (https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw/issues/211)
v2.15.0 New feature
Notable features
  • Gap analysis to detect potential gaps in event logs
Full changelog

This release contains the following changes of note:

  • A new type of analysis, gap analysis which will look for potential gaps in event logs, thanks to @Fuzzdkk (#228).
  • Bumps dependencies.

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