Forensic Artifact Investigator MCP Server

Item: Forensic Artifact Investigator MCP Server
Rating: 74
Author: M8ven

Enables local forensic analysis of files by orchestrating system binaries (file, exiftool, strings, Volatility) via safe subprocess execution.

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// key findings

🚨

Secret credentials may flow to a network call

1 flow detected: VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY. We can’t prove the destination matches the brand the credential belongs to.

⚠️

Tests do not pass

Either the test suite is broken or the code regressed. Either way the published behaviour can’t be verified by the publisher’s own tests.

🔐

You'll be asked for 1 credential: VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configANALYSIS_LOG_PATH

configEVIDENCE_ROOT— 3. Execution Safety: The server validates the path to ensure it remains inside the configured and blocks symlink/path traversal attacks.

configEXIFTOOL_BINARY

configFILE_BINARY

configFILE_COMMAND_TIMEOUT_MS

configMAX_RETURNED_STRINGS

configMAX_STRING_OUTPUT_BYTES

configSTRINGS_BINARY

🔐 secretVIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY— Log Sanitation: The application guarantees that is not logged in files or included in errors.

configVOLATILITY_BINARY— /Users/nambi/Documents/Forensic Open Source/.venv-volatility/bin/vol

configVOLATILITY_MAJOR_VERSION

configVOLATILITY_MAX_OUTPUT_BYTES

configVOLATILITY_TIMEOUT_MS

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commit: 301c6b9eadea5f68d29585d7df3bc7e08c733561

code hash: 0b0f781bcad781cf5f3f6564229bbef7278e8c4c610ccc603fc0741d0509e8b3

verified: 7/13/2026, 9:49:49 AM

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