2.2.0-rc1
Pre-release
Pre-release
2.2.0-rc1 - 2020-07-09
This version includes numerous modifications and introduction of new features,
highlighted below:
Added
- Logging is available, to destinations including the console, a log file, and
embedded within the resulting archive. The log name is specified with-l
and verbosity is adjusted with-v
to increase or-q
to silence. - Added
CUSTOM_PATH_TEMPLATE.txt
with documentation on how to specify custom
paths for collection. - Implemented enumeration of files system contents in the same manner cross
platform - Through new FS enumeration, eliminated extra scanning/duplicate collection
of data within symbolic link directories. Eliminated dependency on the
find
binary. - Enabled the use of globbing patterns within paths. This includes patterns
such as:**/*.plist
/home/*/.*sh_history
\Windows\Temp\[a-z0-9][a-z0-9][a-z0-9][a-z0-9]\*
**/Library/*Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History*
- Enabled the use of regular expressions within paths. This includes full line
and substring patterns, such as:.*mawlare.*
^C:\Windows\Temp\[A-Za-z0-9]{8}\.*$
^C:\Windows\System32\Config\(SOFTWARE|SYSTEM|SAM|SECURITY).*$
- Added functionality to allow the user to select whether the existence of a
custom collection list (-c
) should be in addition to versus in place of
the default artifact list. Continues to default to the replacement option
where it will only collect specified files. - Modified config file to support specification of path pattern type. Can be
one ofstatic
,glob
, orregex
. Format should be a tab delimited text
file with one pattern type and path per line. A line starting with a pound
character will be ignored. - Provided status messages to summarize the number of files scanned and paths
staged for collection. - Increased documentation of source code.
Removed
- Removed collection of Windows Search path due to large size on some systems
(%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows
).
Please use-c
to re-include as needed.
Changed
- Edited build scripts to point to C:\Program Files\7z instead of x86 folder
- Improved the default collection paths for Linux platforms.
- Modified the USNJrnl collection argument to default to disabled collection.
- Improved SFTP handling to collect to a local zip file and attempt the
upload three times, with a 30 second delay between attempts. - Semantic changes to packaging and build scripts to avoid alias use.
- Added packaging script check to see if packaging tool was local before
re-downloading. - Updated argument usage information.
- Added tests to increase coverage of Arguments.cs