Es ist ja nun durch viele Blätter gerauscht, dass Microsoft ein kostenloses Forensiktool für Strafverfolgungsbehörden zur Verfügung stellen will (COFEE – Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor). Nein, es wird weder durch Wände schauen noch Gedanken lesen können. Langsam wird es etwas klarer. Es wird sich dabei um eine Erweiterung von bereits vorhandenen IR-Tools ala F.R.E.D., RootkitRevealer oder WFT handeln – insgesamt ca .150 bereits vorhandene Forensikwerkzeuge. Das ganze mit einem GUI versehen und professionell gewartet. Es werden wohl weder Hintertüren eingebaut oder ausgenutzt.
Kim Zetter schreibt dazu
COFEE, according to forensic folk who have used it, is simply a suite of 150 bundled off-the-shelf forensic tools that run from a script. None of the tools are new or were created by Microsoft. Microsoft simply combined existing programs into a portable tool that can be used in the field before agents bring a computer back to their forensic lab.
Microsoft wouldn’t disclose which tools are in the suite other than that they’re all publicly available, but a forensic expert told me that when he tested the product last year it included standard forensic products like Windows Forensic Toolchest (WFT) and RootkitRevealer.
With COFEE, a forensic agent can select, through the interface, which of the 150 investigative tools he wants to run on a targeted machine. COFEE creates a script and copies it to the USB device which is then plugged into the targeted machine. The advantage is that instead of having to run each tool separately, a forensic investigator can run them all through the script much more quickly and can also grab information (such as data temporarily stored in RAM or network connection information) that might otherwise be lost if he had to disconnect a machine and drag it to a forensics lab before he could examine it.