dfDewey

dfDewey is a digital forensics string extraction, indexing, and searching tool.

Usage

Requirements

dfDewey currently requires bulk_extractor for string extraction. bulk_extractor can be downloaded and built from source here: https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor

bulk_extractor can also be installed from the GIFT PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gift/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y bulk-extractor

Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL are also required to store extracted data. These can be installed separately or started in Docker using docker-compose.

cd dfdewey/docker
sudo docker-compose up -d

Note: To stop the containers (and purge the stored data) run sudo docker-compose down from the dfdewey/docker directory.

All other requirements can be installed using pip: pip install -r requirements.txt