Tool Introduction: DumpZilla

(Busindre, 2013)

"Dumpzilla application is developed in Python 3.x and has as purpose extract all forensic interesting information of Firefox, Iceweasel and Seamonkey browsers to be analyzed. Due to its Python 3.x developement, might not work properly in old Python versions, mainly with certain characters. Works under Unix and Windows 32/64 bits systems. Works in command line interface, so information dumps could be redirected by pipes with tools such as grep, awk, cut, sed… Dumpzilla allows to visualize following sections, search customization and extract certain content." (Busindre, 2014)

The application of choice for this assignment is Dumpzilla, as mentioned above, this python tool is designed to analyze the Firefox, Iceweasel and Seamonkey web browsers user data and then display the information retrieved visually.

The tool can be downloaded from: http://www.dumpzilla.org/, the latest version was released in 2013. However, there is a GitHub repository which has not been updated since the beginning of 2016 which contains the same file that can be found on the Dumpzilla main website. The author of this tool goes by the name of Busindre. This is an independently authored tool that was not published by a company.

Claims:
Busindre, the developer of Dumpzilla claims that the application is capable of visualizing the following:

 "- Cookies + DOM Storage (HTML 5).
 - User preferences (Domain permissions, Proxy settings...).
 - Downloads.
 - Web forms (Searches, emails, comments..).
 - Historial.
 - Bookmarks.
 - Cache HTML5 Visualization / Extraction (Offline cache).
 - visited sites "thumbnails" Visualization / Extraction .
 - Addons / Extensions and used paths or urls.
 - Browser saved passwords.
 - SSL Certificates added as a exception.
 - Session data (Webs, reference URLs and text used in forms).
 - Visualize live user surfing, Url used in each tab / window and use of forms. 

Dumpzilla will show SHA256 hash of each file to extract the information and finally a summary with totals.

Sections which date filter is not possible: DOM Storage, Permissions / Preferences, Addons, Extensions, Passwords/Exceptions, Thumbnails and Session"(Busindre, 2013)

Three different browsers are supported by the tool, these are:
- Firefox (Win, Linux, Mac)
- IceWeasel (Win, Linux, Mac)
- SeaMonkey (Win, Linux, Mac)

No information is provided as to whether or not the support of these browsers differs over versions of the tool, however the storage of information between these browsers are almost identical. All of which stored information within SQLite Databases.


Licensing
The licensing of Dumpzilla is defined as GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later from the main website and manual. (Busindre, 2013) From the GPLv3 website, this license is expressed to be a non-restrictive, open-source license which allows anybody to modify, update or share the software. This is also known as copyleft: the software is copyrighted, but instead of using those rights to restrict users like proprietary software does, the rights are applied to ensure every user has freedom. (Smith, 2014)

As this script is free and open source, an analysis of the source code can take place to further investigate how the tool performs its many functions.


Bibliography:
Busindre. (2013) Dumpzilla Logo [Online image]. Available from: <http://www.dumpzilla.org/dumpzilla.png>[Accessed 31/10/2016]

Busindre. (2013) Dumpzilla Manual [Online]. Available from: <http://www.dumpzilla.org/Manual_dumpzilla_en.txt>[Accessed 31/10/2016]

Smith, B. (2014) A Quick Guide to GPLv3, 11th November [Online]. Available from: <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html>[Accessed 31/10/2016]