Plaso
| plaso | |
|---|---|
| Maintainer: | Daniel White, Joachim Metz |
| OS: | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows |
| Genre: | Analysis |
| License: | APL |
| Website: | github.com/log2timeline/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.
Contents
Supported Formats
The information below is based of version 1.4.0
Storage Media Image File Formats
Storage Media 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
- Apple System Log (ASL)
- Android usage-history (app usage)
- Basic Security Module (BSM)
- Bencode files
- Chrome cache files
- Chrome preferences file
- CUPS IPP
- Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) Database File (EDB) format using libesedb
- Firefox Cache
- Java IDX
- Jump Lists .customDestinations-ms files
- MacOS-X Application firewall
- MacOS-X Keychain
- MacOS-X Securityd
- MacOS-X Wifi
- mactime logs
- McAfee Anti-Virus Logs
- Microsoft Internet Explorer History File Format (also known as MSIE 4 - 9 Cache Files or index.dat) using libmsiecf
- Microsoft IIS log files
- NTFS $MFT using libfsntfs
- NTFS $UsnJrnl:$J using libfsntfs
- OLE Compound File using libolecf
- Opera Browser history
- OpenXML
- Pcap files
- PL SQL cache file (PL-SQL developer recall files)
- Popularity Contest log
- Portable Executable (PE) file
- Property list (plist) format using binplist
- Restore points log file (rp.log)
- Safari Binary cookie
- SCCM client logs
- SELinux audit logs
- SkyDrive log and error log files
- SQLite database format using SQLite
- Symantec AV Corporate Edition and Endpoint Protection log
- Syslog
- UTMP
- UTMPX
- Windows Event Log (EVT) using libevt
- Windows Firewall
- Windows Job files (also known as "at jobs")
- Windows Prefetch files
- Windows Recycle bin (INFO2 and $I/$R)
- Windows NT Registry File (REGF) using libregf
- Windows Shortcut File (LNK) format using liblnk (including shell item support)
- Windows XML Event Log (EVTX) using libevtx
- Xchat and Xchat scrollback files
Bencode file formats
- Transmission
- uTorrent
ESE database file formats
- Internet Explorer WebCache format
- Windows 8 File History
OLE Compound File formats
- Document summary information
- Summary information (top-level only)
- Jump Lists .automaticDestinations-ms files
Property list (plist) formats
- Airport
- Apple Account
- Bluetooth
- Install History
- iPod/iPhone
- Mac User
- Safari history
- Software Update
- Spotlight
- Spotlight Volume Information
- Timemachine
SQLite database file formats
- Android call logs
- Android SMS
- Chrome cookies
- Chrome browsing and downloads history
- Chrome Extension activity
- Firefox cookies
- Firefox browsing and downloads history
- Google Drive
- Launch services quarantine events
- MacKeeper cache
- Mac OS X document versions
- Skype text conversations
- Zeitgeist activity database
Windows Registry formats
- AppCompatCache
- BagMRU (or ShellBags)
- CCleaner
- Explorer ProgramsCache
- Less Frequently Used (LFU)
- MountPoints2
- Most Recently Used (MRU) MRUList and MRUListEx (including shell item support)
- MSIE Zones
- Office MRU
- Outlook Search
- Run and RunOnce keys
- SAM
- Services
- Shutdown
- Task Scheduler Cache (Task Cache)
- Terminal Server MRU
- Timezone information
- Typed URLS
- USB
- USBStor
- UserAssist
- WinRar
- Windows version information
Analysis plugins
- file_hashes: Lists all the hashes for all files processed
- tagging: rule-based tagging
- virustotal: Looks up PE files using the VirusTotal API
- viper: Looks up PE files in a Viper instance
History
Plaso is a Python-based rewrite of the Perl-based log2timeline initially created by Kristinn Gudjonsson and extended by the contribution of various others.
Plaso builds upon the SleuthKit, pytsk, libyal, dfvfs and various other projects.
Related tools
This section contains several tools that can help in analyzing plaso's timeline output:
- 4n6time, formerly "l2t_Review", which is a cross-platform forensic tool for timeline creation and review
- Timesketch a collaborative forensic timeline analysis.
