macOS
brew install chainsawlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für chainsaw in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
brew install chainsawlocal Homebrew formula metadata
nix profile install nixpkgs#chainsawnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ch/chainsaw/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com
sudo zypper install apache-chainsawopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · apache-chainsaw · Quelle: download.opensuse.org
Überblick
Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Forensic Artefacts
Verlauf
Chainsaw is a WithSecure Labs command-line tool for rapid Windows forensic triage. It searches event logs and other Windows artefacts, applies Sigma and custom detection rules, and emits investigator-friendly output formats.
WithSecure Countercept created Chainsaw for incident-response cases where endpoint telemetry or a SIEM was not available, so analysts needed fast standalone processing of Windows artefacts. The public GitHub repository was created in August 2021 and v1.0.0 was released later that month.
The project evolved from an all-in-one threat-hunting bundle toward a tool that expects users to keep Sigma rules and sample event logs separately. The README notes that Chainsaw v2 stopped including Sigma Rules and EVTX-Attack-Samples as submodules so users could track those projects independently.
Chainsaw is distributed through GitHub releases, Nix, and the Homebrew formula named chainsaw. That packaging path matters because the tool is useful as a portable first-response binary on analyst workstations and ephemeral response systems.
GitHub release metadata shows active maintenance from v1.0.0 in 2021 through v2 releases in 2026.
Typical use is to run chainsaw against Windows event-log collections, optionally supplying a Sigma rules directory and a mapping file such as mappings/sigma-event-logs-all.yml. The README documents output formats including table, CSV, and JSON, plus timeline generation from Shimcache enriched with Amcache data.
Chainsaw is notable in package-manager culture because it packages modern Rust DFIR tooling for a workflow that often used heavier SIEM stacks such as Splunk or ELK. It also shows the Sigma ecosystem becoming something local CLIs can consume directly.
Sicherheitslage
Für chainsaw wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
chainsaw | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
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https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw
Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:chainsaw |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.16.2 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/chainsaw |
| Homepage | https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw |
| Repository | https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw#readme |
| Lizenz | GPL-3.0-only |
| Quellarchiv | https://github.com/WithSecureLabs/chainsaw/archive/refs/tags/v2.16.2.tar.gz |
| Zuletzt aktualisiert | 2026-07-09T10:07:08Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Build-Abhängigkeiten | rust |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | chainsaw |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.
chainsaw
nix profile install nixpkgs#chainsawapache-chainsaw 2.1.0-5.8
Apache Chainsaw
https://logging.apache.org/chainsaw
sudo zypper install apache-chainsawQuellspur
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