CyLR
CyLR — Live Response Collection tool by Alan Orlikoski and Jason Yegge
What is CyLR?
The CyLR tool collects forensic artifacts from hosts with NTFS file systems quickly, securely and minimizes impact to the host.
The main features are:
- Quick collection (it's really fast)
- Raw file collection process does not use Windows API
- Optimized to store the collected artifacts in memory (minimizing or removing entirely the need to write additional artifacts on the host disk)
- Built in SFTP capability
What's New
Fixes
Known Bugs
Important Notes
SYNOPSIS
CyLR.exe [--help] [-o] [-u] [-p] [-s] [-m] [-c]
DESCRIPTION
CyLR tool collects forensic artifacts from hosts with NTFS file systems quickly, securely and minimizes impact to the host.
The standard list of collected artifacts are:
- "C:\Windows\System32\config"
- "C:\Windows\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
- "C:\Windows\Prefetch"
- "C:\Windows\Tasks"
- "C:\Windows\SchedLgU.Txt"
- "C:\Windows\System32\winevt\logs"
- "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"
- "C:$MFT"
ARGUMENTS
OPTIONS
- '--help' — Show help message and exit.
- '-o' — Defines the directory that the zip archive will be created in. Defaults to current working directory. (applies to SFTP and local storage options)
- SFTP Options
- '-u' — SFTP username
- '-p' — SFTP password
- '-s' — SFTP Server resolvable hostname or IP address and port. If no port is given then 22 is used by default. The format is :. Usage: -s 8.8.8.8:22"
- '-m' — Attempt to collect artifacts 100% in memory. WARNING: This may use a lot of memory depending on the size of artifacts
- '-c' — Optional argument to provide custom list of artifact files and directories (one entry per line). NOTE: Must use full path including drive letter on each line. MFT can be collected by "C:$MFT" or "D:$MFT" and so on. Usage: -c
DEPENDENCIES
- NTFS file system
- Windows Operating System
- .NET 4.x
- NOTE: 4.5 works twice as fast as the 4.0 version but may not be supported by older systems
EXAMPLES
Standard collection
CyLR.exe
Collect artifacts and store data in "C:\Temp\LRData"
CyLR.exe -o "C:\Temp\LRData"
Collect artifacts and store data in ".\LRData"
CyLR.exe -o LRData
Collect artifacts and send data to SFTP server 8.8.8.8
CyLR.exe -u username -p password -s 8.8.8.8
Collect artifacts, send data to SFTP server 8.8.8.8, and keep all artifacts in memory
CyLR.exe -u username -p password -s 8.8.8.8 -m