Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
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#DFIR @ Magnet Forensics
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Doug Metz
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· Sep 4
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George Takei
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· Aug 30
Sign Petition: Stop Masked Immigration Raids. This Is Not How a Democracy Operates.
These agents are using masks to shield themselves from accountability for their willingness to participate in dangerous overreach. (51529 signatures on petition)
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Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· Aug 27
Is your USB device slowing down your forensic investigation?
In digital forensics, reliable storage is essential for effective workflows. Crabwise, a USB benchmarking utility, addresses performance variability by calculating read and write speeds under direct conditions, bypassing caching. It logs results for easy comparison, allowing users to optimize connections. This tool ensures informed decisions on hardware setups, improving efficiency and consistency in forensics tasks.
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Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· Aug 2
Enhance Threat Hunting with MITRE Lookup in MalChela 3.0.2
The recent update of MalChela 3.0.2 introduces MITRE Lookup, a tool that allows forensic investigators to search the MITRE ATT&CK framework offline. This feature enhances investigation speed by supporting keyword and Technique ID searches while providing tactic categories and detection guidance. Users can save results directly for future reference, enhancing analysis efficiency.
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Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Toby-Find: Simplifying Command-Line Forensics Tools
Toby-Find is a terminal-based tool designed for digital forensics, providing users with an easy way to discover command-line tools available in KALI and REMnux. Initially created for a university course, it allows quick searches for tools, descriptions, and examples, enhancing usability in forensic analysis without memorization or manual searching.
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Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· Jul 28
Sharper Strings and Smarter Signals: MalChela 3.0.1
🎯 MalChela v3.0.1 is live Sharper strings. Smarter signals. This update tightens forensic detection across the board: • ✅ Improved mstrings output and MITRE mappings • 🔎 Built-in MITRE technique lookup (GUI) • 📁 FileMiner gets “select all” + subtool optimizations • 🧠 Smarter regex, better signal-to-noise for analysts • 🦀 Compiled & tuned for --release performance Still a one-crab shop, but contributions welcome. 👉 🧰 Docs: #DFIR #MalwareAnalysis
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Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· Jul 20
Portable Forensics with Toby: A Raspberry Pi Toolkit
Toby is a compact, portable forensics toolkit built on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, designed for ease of use in field analysis and malware triage. It operates headlessly via SSH or VNC, supports variou…
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Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· Jul 5
Doug Metz
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· Jun 30
Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· Jun 21
MalChela v3.0: Case Management, FileMiner, and Smarter Triage
MalChela v3.0 enhances investigative workflows by introducing cases for organization, replacing MismatchMiner with FileMiner for improved file analysis, and suggesting tools based on file characteristics, streamlining the analysis process. #MalChela #DFIR #MalwareAnalysis
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Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· May 26
Hashes for the Masses: Finding What Matters in a Sea of Samples
A short while back, I released a pair of tools for building MD5 hash sets — one targeting known-good gold builds, the other designed for scanning malware corpora. The goal was simple: generate hash sets that could be used in forensics tools like Axiom Cyber to flag IOC matches during case processing. Recently, I hit a familiar problem: I had a hash and wanted to know if that file existed in my malware library.
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Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· May 21
MalChela 2.2 “REMnux” Release
MalChela’s 2.2 update is packed with practical and platform-friendly improvements. It includes native support for REMnux, better tool settings, and deeper integrations with analysis tools like YARA-X, Tshark, Volatility3, and the newly improved fileanalyzer module. 🦀 REMnux Edition: Built-In Support, Zero Tweaks When the GUI loads a REMnux-specific tools.yaml profile, it enters REMnux mode.
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Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· May 8
CyberPipe v5.1 – Streamlined Profiles, Better Flexibility
CyberPipe v5.1 is out with a few targeted improvements to make live response a bit smoother. What’s New: Collection profiles can now be passed directly as arguments using -CollectionProfile. No nee…
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Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· May 2
MalChela v2.1 Released: Smoother Workflows, Easier Tool Integration
🚀 MalChela v2.1 is now live! This update focuses on smoother workflows, better third-party tool integration, and more control for forensic analysts and malware researchers. 🔹 Quickly re-run tools with different arguments — no need to rebuild commands 🔹 Easily integrate external binaries or scripts via tools.yaml 🔹 Save clean, consistent reports — even from tools that don’t natively generate output 🔹 Switch between tools without losing context Whether you’re parsing suspicious PDFs, analyzing YARA matches, or chaining tools together during triage, MalChela aims to keep things practical and fast. 🛠️ Full release notes & downloads: 👉 📘 User guide: 👉 Thanks to everyone who’s tested, suggested improvements, or contributed ideas — this community is what keeps it going. #dfir #malwareanalysis #rustlang #yara #digitalforensics #opensource #threatintel #malchela
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Doug Metz
@dwmetz.bsky.social
· May 2
Doug Metz
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· May 2