r/dfir
5k members
r/dfir is a subreddit with 5k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses forensics, dfir, windows, incident response, and analysis.
A subreddit to discuss and share news, content, whitepapers, research, tutorials, webinars, or anything else regarding Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR)
Popular Themes in r/dfir
#1
Advice Requests
: "DFIR process best practice"
17 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "I built an open-source tool that uses AI to automate Windows forensic triage — just upload an E01/ZIP and get a report"
16 posts
#3
News
: "AI + Digital Forensics (X-Post)"
9 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "LSASS.EXE IS WIERD"
2 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "Tool release: decrypt VMware vTPM-encrypted .vmem/.vmsn for memory forensics (Volatility-ready)"
2 posts
#6
Ideas
: "Built a UEFI-Based Disk Cloning Utility"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/dfir
#1
Forensics
: "Anatomy of an NTFS FILE Record - Windows File System Forensics (X-Post)"
68 posts
#2
Dfir
: "Gulp - open-source incident response & log analysis platform with a multi-timeline UI (Dfir / blue team)"
59 posts
#3
Windows
: "I built an open-source tool that uses AI to automate Windows forensic triage — just upload an E01/ZIP and get a report"
21 posts
#4
Incident Response
: "Gulp - open-source Incident Response & log analysis platform with a multi-timeline UI (DFIR / blue team)"
15 posts
#5
Analysis
: "Malware Analysis Sandbox"
14 posts
#6
Security
13 posts
#7
Forensic
: "Free Digital Forensics Tool – Chat Extraction, Data Recovery & Report Generation"
12 posts
#8
Incident
: "Is "quantum-readiness" something orgs should budget for now?"
10 posts
#9
Memory
: "13Cubed Windows Memory Forensics Challenge (X-Post)"
9 posts
#10
Linux
: "Built a Linux persistence hunting & artifact collection tool in Bash - persisthunt"
9 posts
Member Growth in r/dfir
Yearly
+1k members(33.7%)
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Last updated: July 30, 2026