

To better understand what Bitscout is, we suggest you read further description of users' roles in the process and the FAQ below. It verifies components' presence on the ISO and attempts to boot the ISO file using qemu to verify that all essential services are running. This command shall run tests against the freshly built ISO file. However, all changes shall affect only current directory and subdirectories, unless your system is missing some essential packages to build the ISO (in this case they will be installed). Note: the automake.sh script runs some commands as root, such as mounting local cache directories and creating new root filesystem permissions. To download Ubuntu LiveCD, please go here:Īlternatively, you may try one of our pre-built images (only for demo, not production):īitscout build demo, as well as setup of other components, can be seen here:Īlternatively, here is some older video on Youtube that shows building Bitscout right from an Ubuntu LiveCD: But previously, we managed you to build Bitscout even with 2GB of RAM. It's better to attach an external storage in this case to make sure you don't run out of memory. Hint: if you are not running Linux and still want to try Bitscout, you can start Ubuntu from LiveCD and build an image there.

Basic usage:Īfter running this command, you may need to answer some questions such as location of your VPN server, type of build, etc. However, if you are ready to start on your own, below is a little guidance to help you. We recommend exploring the project home page first. This constructor can be customized to include your tools, however one of the core ideas was to remotely assist Law Enforcement investigations as well as incident responders, which is why Bitscout by default includes a number of forensic and malware analysis tools and is focused on protecting the disk drives from accidental or intentional modifications. Do not expect a common user graphical interface, and if you are not familiar with the Linux command line, it's a wise idea to learn that first. This project was created by security researchers to be able to do remote system triage, malware threat hunting, digital forensics, incident response, and more. It's main purpose is to help you quickly create your own remote forensics bootable disk image. Bitscout is a customizable live OS constructor tool written entirely in Bash.
