# shadawck/awesome-anti-forensic

Tools and packages that are used for countering forensic activities, including encryption, steganography, and anything that modify attributes. This all includes tools to work with anything in general that makes changes to a system for the purposes of hiding information.

Repository: https://github.com/shadawck/awesome-anti-forensic
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-anti-forensic
Homepage: https://shadawck.github.io/awesome-anti-forensic/
Language: HTML
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: awesome-list, awesome, anti-forensic, anti-forensics, cybersecurity, forensic-analysis, security, antiforensics
Last push: 2023-11-27T11:25:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2655, "days_push": 1010, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1034, forks 110 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:18.698490+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of tools and packages used for countering forensic activities, covering encryption, steganography, disk imaging, memory extraction, and file recovery. It catalogs software that hides information or modifies system attributes to resist forensic analysis.

## Use cases
- find anti-forensic tools for hiding information
- curated list of steganography and encryption tools
- tools for memory dumping and file recovery
- learn about disk imaging and forensic countermeasures
- research cybersecurity anti-forensics techniques
- find tools to counter forensic analysis

## When to choose
- you need a starting point to discover anti-forensic and forensic-resistance tools
- you want a categorized reference of encryption, steganography, and memory extraction utilities
- you are researching digital forensics countermeasures

## When to avoid
- you need a single working tool rather than a directory of links
- you need actively maintained software with support guarantees, since many listed projects are third-party and vary in upkeep
- you are looking for defensive forensic analysis tooling itself rather than counter-forensic resources

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, privacy, cryptography, reverse-engineering, developer-tools
- domain: security, privacy, awesome-lists, reverse-engineering
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: awesome-list, anti-forensics, digital-forensics, steganography, memory-forensics, disk-imaging, curated-list, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- shadawck/awesome-anti-forensic (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:18.698490+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:06:35.991880+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/shadawck/awesome-anti-forensic (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:18.698490+00:00, sha a900d075f8fa)
  - homepage: https://shadawck.github.io/awesome-anti-forensic/ (fetched 2026-08-29T13:06:01.921034+00:00, sha 5eeb1245db6c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.