On April 6, 2018, two years were added to the existing RPM signing key.
You can find this new key with its new expiration date here.
The fingerprint for this key is:
No packages need to be resigned since they were signed with the related private key that never expires.
Simply runing either:
for CentOS/RHEL 6 and 7 will suffice to install the key with the new expiration date and then update
any other packages that have changed in the repository.
Repository files will continue to be available but development and improvements will cease as of this date.
The repository now contains packages that are shared between supported OSes and Architectures.
To reduce the size of the repository, these packages are hard-linked rather than copied.
To reduce the size of your mirror of the repository, make certain to use the -H option to preserve these hard links.
This section lists and explains how to enable the supported repositories on one of the supported operating system versions and architectures.
To add the tools repository on your Fedora system, install the repository rpm appropriate for your version of Fedora.
Find the CERT Forensics GPG key here to verify the rpm before installing it.
Once you've installed one of these release repository packages, you can do either of the following:
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Install all of the packages provided in the repository with the following.
Note, for Fedora 22 through 29, use dnf instead of yum.
yum install CERT-Forensics-Tools
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Install only the packages you need.
For example, you can install the AFF tools with:
yum install afftools
Use the table below to list the contents of the folders to see which packages are available for the supported systems and architectures.
This table lists the Fedora versions and architectures for which packages are provided in the repository and their support status.
Please note that support for new versions of Fedora is intended to be provided within 2 weeks from the final release of that version.
To add the tools repository to your CentOS/RHEL system, follow these steps:
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Install and update the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository with the following:
sudo yum -y install epel-release
sudo yum -y update epel-release
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If the host is either a CentOS/RHEL 6.7 or 6.8 x86_64, install the centos-release-scl-rh fom the Extras repository.
This repository is the Software Collections SIG.
Use the following:
sudo yum -y install centos-release-scl-rh
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Again as root, install the repository rpm appropriate for your version of CentOS/RHEL.
Find the CERT Forensics GPG key here to verify the rpm before installing it.
Install them as root with the following, after first selecting the appropriate architecture:
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Finally, do either of the following:
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Install all of the packages provided in the repository with:
sudo yum install CERT-Forensics-Tools
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Install only the packages you need.
For example, you can install the AFF tools with:
sudo yum install afftools
Use the table below to list the contents of the folders to see which packages are available for the supported systems and architectures.
| CentOS/RHEL Linux Repository Support |
| Release |
X86 RPMS |
X86_64 RPMS |
Source RPMS |
Status |
| 7 |
Not Supported |
View |
View |
Actively being developed |
| 6 |
View |
View |
View |
Actively being developed |
| 5 |
View |
View |
View |
Development has ended as of 2015-12-31 |
The CERT Linux Forensics Tools Repository is not availble for Ubuntu.
However, there are repositories that are available for Ubuntu that contain many of the same tools.
In fact, the LiFTeR maintainers monitor these repositories for new and updated tools and typically install these new and updated tools in LiFTeR.
Here are the repositories with many of the same tools as LiFTeR:
ADIA is CERT's Appliance for Digital Investigation and Analysis.
Appliances are provided for VMware and VirtualBox.
Instructions are provided for running ADIA under QEMU.
The design goals for ADIA are the following:
- Provide pre-built tools for installation and use
- Keep tools up-to-date.
- Keep desktop up-to-date.
- Make tools easy to use.
- Help users navigate and use command-line tools correctly and efficiently.
- Resolve and provide all dependencies.
- All LiFTeR tools are installed in ADIA.
- Do the right thing forensically
- The Webmin GUI system administration tool is installed and operational for typical system administration tasks.
The next table shows the ADIA versions currently available, along with their architectures, hypervisors, checksums, and signatures.
This document explains how to install, operate, and maintain ADIA.
| ADIA - The Appliance for Digital Investigation and Analysis |
| Version |
Architecture |
Hypervisor |
Appliance OVA Image File |
SHA256 Checksum |
Signature |
| CentOS 7 |
x86_64 |
VMware |
Link |
0c903a1c346332f8d2a5a28d528c98a2f8cba34bab72010f93cc24fe2f5ae9f6 |
Link |
| CentOS 7 |
x86_64 |
VirtualBox |
Link |
52f428fea4e9b59445e5dd597931a5d9d11a50939484c460e630d967518e77bb |
Link |
ADIA has been tested and works on VMware Workstation 14 under Windows 10 Education and VMware Fusion 10 under Mac OS X High Sierra (10.13).
We expect that it will work in other configurations but they remain untested.
To install ADIA under VMware, do the following:
- Download the VMware-based OVA.
- Optionally check the PGP/GPG Signature and the SHA256 checksum from the table above.
- Start VMware.
- Select
File->Import....
- Navigate to the downloaded OVA and select it.
- Import the virtual machine.
- If you get an Import Failed error message, select
Retry to continue.
- Select the Continue button to continue.
- When the import finishes, select the
Finish button to continue.
- Enable Shared Folders with
Virtual Machine→Settings...→ then select Shared Folders.
- Optionally share a folder to ADIA. On a Windows-based computer system, we recommend C:\Forensics.
- Start the virtual machine.
- Optionally update the hardware version of the newly created virtual machine.
- The virtual machine will boot and automatically login as examiner (with password
forensics).
- Adjust the screen resolution as appropriate.
- If your network requires a proxy server to update the system, configure that now.
- In the terminal window on the main desktop, enter the following commands:
- Update packages with: sudo yum clean all; sudo yum -y update
- Update the examiner desktop with: manage-examiner-login -S -v
- Restart the system with: sudo reboot
Installing ADIA under VMware requires about 8Gb of disk space.
ADIA has been tested and works on VirtualBox 5.2.8 under Windows 10 Education and under Mac OS X High Sierra (10.13).
We expect that it will work in other configurations but they remain untested.
Note that you will need to also have the VirtualBox Extension Pack installed to run ADIA.
To install ADIA under VirtualBox, do the following:
- Download the VirtualBox-based OVA.
- Optionally check the PGP/GPG Signature and the SHA256 checksum from the table above.
- Start VirtualBox.
- Select
File-→Import Appliance....
- Navigate to the downloaded OVA and select it.
- Select
Continue.
- Select
Import.
- To share folders with the host, you may need to specify a different shared folder.
As distributed, ADIA assumes that files are shared with the host at the path C:\Forensics.
If this does not match your system and you wish to use shared folders, you will need to adjust this.
Select
Machine→Settings...→Shared Folders to make this change.
- When the virtual machine has been imported, double click on it to boot it.
- The virtual machine will boot and automatically login as examiner (with password forensics).
- You will have to re-install the VirtualBox Additions in the guest when you update the kernel.
- To enable cut and paste between the host and the guest, follow these directions.
- The virtual machine will boot and automatically login as examiner (with password
forensics).
- Adjust the screen resolution as appropriate.
- If your network requires a proxy server to update the system, configure that now.
- In the terminal window on the main desktop, enter the following commands:
- Update packages with: sudo yum clean all; sudo yum -y update
- Update the examiner desktop with: manage-examiner-login -S -v
- Restart the system with: sudo reboot
Installing ADIA under VirtualBox requires about 8Gb of disk space.
ADIA has been tested and works on QEMU under Ubuntu 18.04.
We expect that it will work in other configurations but they remain untested.
Note: You will need an folder with at leat 15Gb of free space for these files.
To install ADIA under QEMU, do the following:
- Download the VirtualBox-based OVA.
- Optionally check the PGP/GPG Signature and the SHA256 checksum from the table above.
- Rename the downloaded OVA file to ADIA.tar with: mv ADIA-CentOS7-x86-64-2017-12-01-VirtualBox.ova ADIA.tar
- Untar the TAR file with: tar xvf ADIA.tar
- Convert the vmdk file to qcow2 format with the following: qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 ADIA-disk001.vmdk ADIA.qcow2
- You can now remove the unneeded files with: rm ADIA-disk001.vmdk ADIA.ovf ADIA.tar
- Start the Virtual Machine Manager.
- Create a new virtual machine.
- Select Import Existing disk image and select the disk you create above.
- Select linux for the OS type.
- Select CentOS 7 for the version.
- Adjust the memory size and number of CPUs as appropriate.
- Name the virtual machine, ADIA for example.
- Adjust the network as appropriate.
- When the virtual machine has been imported, it automatically boots.
- The virtual machine will boot and automatically login as examiner (with password forensics).
- Disregard any VirtualBox errors. The VirtualBox additions will be remove shortly and these errors will go away.
- Adjust the screen resolution as appropriate.
- If your network requires a proxy server to update the system, configure that now.
- In the terminal window on the desktop run the following commands:
- Disable VirtualBox services with: sudo systemctl disable vboxadd.service
- Remove VirtualBox Guest Additions with :sudo /usr/sbin/vbox-uninstall-guest-additions
- Update packages with: sudo yum clean all; sudo yum -y update
- Update the examiner desktop with: manage-examiner-login -S -v
- Install the ACPI daemon with: sudo yum -y acipd
- Restart the system with: sudo reboot
Installing ADIA under QEMU requires about 8Gb of disk space.
The examiner account, which is the default and automtically logged into account for ADIA,
consists of several packages and a script that isused to create/reset this account to it's default state.
With these packages, changes to ADIA can be reflected in the examiner's desktop.
One such example is the addition of a tool to set of tools available to the analyst.
When this tool is added, documentation for that tool can also be added to the examiner's Tool Documentation folder, a folder which appears by default on
the examiner's desktop.
By updating the packages on ADIA, the documentation also reflects the addition of this new tool.
To this end, there is second repository that defines the set of packages used to manage the examiner's desktop environment.
The table below lists the examiner desktop release RPMs for the supported architectures.
These release RPMs contains references to the CERT-supplied RPMs for the examiner login and Webmin.
Install the rpm for CentOS to enable access via yum.
Find the CERT Forensics GPG key here.
To request support or report bugs, send mail to
Have questions? See the Frequently Asked Questions page.
If you'd like to contribute, update, or help maintain a package in the CERT Forensics Tools Repository, please send mail to
Here are the areas where help is most needed:
- Suggestions of packages to add to the repository.
Please provide a URL for the source code.
A pointer to a source RPM would be best.
- Support for other versions of Linux, specifically Ubuntu.