A cross-platform forensic artifact collection tool for NTFS file systems that minimizes host impact.
CyLR is a forensic artifact collection tool designed for incident responders and digital forensics investigators. It quickly gathers critical evidence from NTFS file systems across Windows, Linux, and macOS while minimizing impact on the target host. The tool creates compressed, secure archives of forensic artifacts that can be analyzed offline.
Digital forensics investigators, incident response teams, and security professionals who need to collect forensic evidence from live systems during security incidents or investigations.
CyLR offers faster collection through raw NTFS access, cross-platform compatibility with self-contained binaries, and flexible artifact targeting while maintaining minimal host impact—making it ideal for time-sensitive incident response scenarios.
CyLR - Live Response Collection Tool
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Uses direct NTFS reads instead of Windows API for faster collection with minimal system impact, as highlighted in the README for avoiding host disruption.
Runs natively on Windows, Linux, and macOS via self-contained .NET Core binaries, with prebuilt releases for each platform ensuring portability.
Supports custom collection paths using static, glob, and regex patterns in configuration files, allowing responders to tailor evidence gathering to specific needs.
Creates password-protected ZIP archives with configurable compression and optional SFTP upload, securing forensic evidence during transfer and storage.
On modern macOS, users must manually grant full disk access to CyLR and its parent process, complicating deployment in locked-down environments.
Custom paths require tab-delimited configuration files, which are error-prone and less user-friendly compared to GUI or simpler formats like YAML.
CyLR only collects artifacts; forensic analysis requires separate tools, adding steps to the workflow and potentially slowing down investigation.