TOOL TUTORIAL · Digital Forensics & Incident Response

How to install and use Autopsy

Autopsy is an open-source digital forensics platform that provides a graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit (TSK), a collection of command-line tools used to investigate disk images, files, and directories. Autopsy is widely used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examin…

Quick install: sudo apt install autopsy

Installation steps

  1. On Kali Linux run sudo apt install autopsy for the browser based version
  2. On Windows download the modern Autopsy from its official releases page
  3. On Windows run the downloaded installer and accept the defaults
  4. Start the Linux version with sudo autopsy then open the shown link
  5. Create a new case and add a disk image to begin

See the full Autopsy reference →