Name: X-Ways Forensics
Author: X-Ways Software Technologies

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X-Ways Forensics is an integrated computer forensics software designed to meet the needs of small to large companies. According to the vendor, this software is widely used by law enforcement agencies, government agencies, corporate security teams, digital forensics professionals, and legal professionals.

## Key Features

**Disk cloning and imaging**: According to the vendor, X-Ways Forensics allows users to read partitioning and file system structures inside various image files, providing complete access to disks, RAIDs, and images over 2 TB in size. It also supports the interpretation of different RAID systems and dynamic disks.

**Automatic identification of lost/deleted partitions**: The vendor states that this software natively supports a wide range of file systems and can superimpose sectors to parse file systems completely, even in the presence of data corruption. It also provides access to the logical memory of running processes.

**Various data recovery techniques, lightning-fast and powerful file carving**: X-Ways Forensics is equipped with a well-maintained file header signature database and a data interpreter that supports 20 variable types. According to the vendor, users can view and edit binary data structures using templates.

**Hard disk cleansing to produce forensically sterile media**: X-Ways Forensics allows users to gather slack space, free space, inter-partition space, and generic text from drives and images. The vendor states that it also facilitates the creation of a file and directory catalog for all computer media and provides easy detection and access to NTFS alternate data streams (ADS).

**Mass hash calculation for files**: The vendor claims that X-Ways Forensics offers lightning-fast and powerful search capabilities for multiple search terms simultaneously. It provides a recursive view of all existing and deleted files in all subdirectories and supports automatic coloring for the structure of FILE records in NTFS.

**Ability to analyze remote computers in conjunction with F-Response**: X-Ways Forensics supports a wide range of file systems, ensuring compatibility with different operating systems. The vendor also states that it offers superior disk imaging with intelligent compression options and the ability to read and write .e01 evidence files.

**Logical acquisition: Ability to copy relevant files and directories to evidence file containers**: X-Ways Forensics provides complete case management functionality, allowing users to tag files and add notable files to the case report. It also supports multiple examiners in cases, with separate or shared results.

**Ability to import hash sets and create your own hash sets**: According to the vendor, this software allows users to reduce the analysis scope using ID modulo filter and immediately available pseudo-hash values. It offers convenient navigation options, including back & forward navigation, gallery view, and calendar view. It also provides an internal viewer for various file types.

**Ability to collect Internet Explorer history and browser cache index.dat records**: X-Ways Forensics ensures extensive and precise file type verification based on signatures and specialized algorithms. It offers a directory tree for easy exploration and tagging of directories and synchronizes the sectors view with the file list and directory tree.

**MANY powerful dynamic filters based on true file type, hash set category, timestamps, file size, comments, report tables, contained search terms, etc.**: According to the vendor, X-Ways Forensics allows users to identify and filter out duplicate files, automatically detect encrypted MS Office and PDF documents, and extract embedded files from various other files. It also provides detection of black & white or grayscale pictures and PDF documents that should be OCR'ed.

X-Ways Forensics is a powerful computer forensic tool that provides examiners with an efficient and low-cost solution. This German-made product is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, runs on various Windows systems, and does not require any expensive hardware or complex databases to run. Furthermore, it has a much smaller footprint than other competitors as the download is just a few megabytes and can be installed within seconds.

Its superior search capabilities enable users to find deleted files and hits that might have been missed by competitors' software. The workflow model of X-Ways Forensics allows for collaboration between forensic examiners and investigators using X-Ways Investigator. Examining computers becomes more manageable thanks to its many features and its efficiency compared to its competition which enables users to save time while still providing reliable results.

X-Ways Forensics is an advanced work environment for computer forensic examiners and our flagship product that runs on Windows. X-Ways Forensics is presented as not resource-hungry, fast, finds deleted files and search hits that the competitors will miss, and does not depend on setting up a complex database. X-Ways Forensics is fully portable and runs off a USB stick on any given Windows system without installation. It is a few MB in size. X-Ways Forensics is based on the WinHex hex and disk editor and part of a workflow model where computer forensic examiners share data and collaborate with investigators that use X-Ways Investigator.

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