National Software Reference Library (NSRL) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) had work together in a project for collecting software from various sources and incorporate file profiles computed from this software into a Reference Data Set (RDS) of information.
The RDS can be used by law enforcement, government, and industry organisations to review files on a computer by matching file profiles in the RDS. This will help to alleviate much of the effort involved in determining which files are important as evidence on computers or file systems that have been seized as part of criminal investigations.
The RDS is a collection of digital signatures of known, traceable software applications. There are applications hash values in the hash set which may be considered malicious, i.e. steganography tools and hacking scripts.
Basically the idea is to load this products and understand if the tools that I decided to use do not change the or alter the evidence. Further information about the project and the NSRL can be found here.
