AegisAI - Digital Forensics & Incident Response Framework

Multi-phase forensic analysis platform integrating ML-driven malware detection, NTFS timeline reconstruction, LLM-powered threat analysis, and automated case reporting.

Architecture

                         AegisAI PIPELINE

  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  Suspicious Input (PE/APK/Scripts/Docs)                 │
  └────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                           ▼
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  Phase 1: Detection & Quarantine                        │
  │  YARA (1000+ rules) │ PE Analysis │ Doc2Vec │ Stats ML  │
  └─────��──────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                           ▼
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  Phase 2: Metadata Extraction                           │
  │  EXIF │ Zone.Identifier │ Browser Forensics │ Hashing   │
  └────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                           ▼
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  Phase 3: Path Reconstruction                           │
  │  MFT Timeline │ USN Journal │ Attack Chain Mapping      │
  └────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                           ▼
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  Phase 4: Reporting & Case Management                   │
  │  SQLite Case DB │ Chain-of-Custody │ IOC │ MITRE ATT&CK │
  └────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                           ▼
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  Advanced Modules                                       ���
  │  MirGuard (GAT + Contrastive) │ GenDFIR (FAISS + LLM)  │
  │  ZORA (Threat Prediction - 89% accuracy)                │
  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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Key Technical Highlights

1. FAISS Vector Database Powering LLM RAG Pipelines

Architected FAISS-backed vector store for forensic log retrieval, enabling LLM context injection for accelerated timeline extractions.

  Audit Logs ──► LogEmbedder (384-dim) ──► FAISS IndexFlatL2
                                                  │
  Query Log ──► Embed ──► Similarity Search ──────┘
                                  │
                                  ▼
                    Top-K Similar Incidents (RAG Context)
                                  │
                                  ▼
                    LLM Timeline Reconstruction

# HybridDetection/gendfir/vector_database.py

class VectorDatabase:
    """FAISS-backed vector store for forensic log RAG retrieval"""

    def __init__(self, embedding_dim: int = 384):
        self.embedding_dim = embedding_dim
        self.embedder = LogEmbedder(embedding_dim=embedding_dim)

        if FAISS_AVAILABLE:
            self.index = faiss.IndexFlatL2(embedding_dim)
            self.use_faiss = True
        else:
            self.index = None
            self.use_faiss = False
            self.fallback_embeddings = []

        self.logs = []
        self.metadata = []

    def search(self, query_log: Dict, top_k: int = 5) -> List[Tuple[Dict, float, Dict]]:
        """Retrieve similar forensic logs for LLM context augmentation"""
        query_embedding = self.embedder.embed(query_log).reshape(1, -1)

        if self.use_faiss:
            distances, indices = self.index.search(query_embedding, top_k)
            results = [
                (self.logs[idx], float(dist), self.metadata[idx])
                for dist, idx in zip(distances[0], indices[0])
                if idx < len(self.logs)
            ]
        return results

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2. Relational SQLite Schemas for Multi-Case Evidence Management

Designed normalized relational schemas supporting multi-case forensic tracking with full evidence lifecycle and chain-of-custody.

  ┌──────────────┐       ┌──────────────────┐       ┌──────────────┐
  │    cases     │──1:N──│    evidence      │       │    tasks     │
  │──────────────│       │──────────────────│       │──────────────│
  │ case_id (PK) │       │ evidence_id (PK) │       │ task_id (PK) │
  │ case_number  │       │ case_id (FK)     │       │ case_id (FK) │
  │ case_name    │       │ evidence_number  │       │ task_name    │
  │ status       │       │ file_path        │       │ assigned_to  │
  │ examiner     │       │ md5/sha1/sha256  │       │ status       │
  │ priority     │       │ collected_by     ���       │ priority     │
  └──────────────┘       │ status           │       └──────────────┘
                         └──────────────────┘

# Phase4-Reporting/scripts/case_manager.py

def init_database(self):
    """Initialize SQLite database with forensic schema"""
    conn = sqlite3.connect(self.db_path)
    cursor = conn.cursor()

    cursor.execute("""
        CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cases (
            case_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
            case_number TEXT UNIQUE NOT NULL,
            case_name TEXT NOT NULL,
            description TEXT,
            status TEXT NOT NULL,
            priority TEXT,
            created_date TEXT NOT NULL,
            closed_date TEXT,
            examiner TEXT,
            notes TEXT,
            metadata TEXT
        )
    """)

    cursor.execute("""
        CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS evidence (
            evidence_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
            case_id TEXT NOT NULL,
            evidence_number TEXT NOT NULL,
            file_path TEXT NOT NULL,
            file_name TEXT NOT NULL,
            file_size INTEGER,
            file_type TEXT,
            md5_hash TEXT,
            sha1_hash TEXT,
            sha256_hash TEXT,
            collected_date TEXT NOT NULL,
            collected_by TEXT,
            description TEXT,
            status TEXT NOT NULL,
            FOREIGN KEY (case_id) REFERENCES cases(case_id)
        )
    """)

    cursor.execute("""
        CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tasks (
            task_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
            case_id TEXT NOT NULL,
            task_name TEXT NOT NULL,
            assigned_to TEXT,
            status TEXT NOT NULL,
            priority TEXT,
            created_date TEXT NOT NULL,
            due_date TEXT,
            completed_date TEXT,
            FOREIGN KEY (case_id) REFERENCES cases(case_id)
        )
    """)
    conn.commit()

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3. Graph Attention Networks with Contrastive Learning for Anomaly Detection

Built multi-layer GAT encoder generating graph-level embeddings from system provenance graphs, trained with NT-Xent contrastive loss, anomalies isolated via K-Means cluster distance thresholding.

  Audit Logs ──► Provenance Graph Construction
                        │
                        ▼
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  GAT Encoder (3 layers, 4 heads)        │
  │  node_features ──► GATConv ──► BN ──►   │
  │  ELU ──► Dropout ──► ... ──► Pool       │
  └─────────────────┬───────────────────────┘
                    │ 256-dim graph embedding
                    ▼
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  Contrastive Learning (NT-Xent)         │
  │  Positive pairs: augmented views        │
  │  Negative pairs: different graphs       │
  └─────────────────┬───────────────────────┘
                    ▼
  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  K-Means Anomaly Detection              │
  │  Cluster assignment ──► Distance to     │
  │  centroid ──► Threshold ──► Anomaly?    │
  └─────────────────────────────────────────┘

# HybridDetection/mirguard/gat_encoder.py

class GATEncoder(nn.Module):
    """Graph Attention Network encoder for provenance graphs"""

    def __init__(self, node_feature_dim: int = 64, hidden_dim: int = 128,
                 embedding_dim: int = 256, num_heads: int = 4,
                 num_layers: int = 3, dropout: float = 0.2):
        super(GATEncoder, self).__init__()

        self.convs = nn.ModuleList()
        self.convs.append(
            GATConv(node_feature_dim, hidden_dim, heads=num_heads, dropout=dropout)
        )
        for _ in range(num_layers - 2):
            self.convs.append(
                GATConv(hidden_dim * num_heads, hidden_dim, heads=num_heads, dropout=dropout)
            )
        self.convs.append(
            GATConv(hidden_dim * num_heads, embedding_dim, heads=1, dropout=dropout)
        )

    def forward(self, data):
        x, edge_index, batch = data.x, data.edge_index, data.batch
        for i, conv in enumerate(self.convs[:-1]):
            x = conv(x, edge_index)
            x = self.batch_norms[i](x)
            x = F.elu(x)
            x = F.dropout(x, p=self.dropout, training=self.training)
        x = self.convs[-1](x, edge_index)
        return global_mean_pool(x, batch)


class ContrastiveLoss(nn.Module):
    """NT-Xent contrastive loss for graph anomaly separation"""

    def __init__(self, temperature: float = 0.5):
        super(ContrastiveLoss, self).__init__()
        self.temperature = temperature

    def forward(self, embeddings1, embeddings2):
        batch_size = embeddings1.shape[0]
        embeddings1 = F.normalize(embeddings1, dim=1)
        embeddings2 = F.normalize(embeddings2, dim=1)
        embeddings = torch.cat([embeddings1, embeddings2], dim=0)

        similarity_matrix = torch.matmul(embeddings, embeddings.T) / self.temperature
        labels = torch.arange(batch_size, device=embeddings.device)
        labels = torch.cat([labels + batch_size, labels], dim=0)

        mask = torch.eye(2 * batch_size, dtype=torch.bool, device=embeddings.device)
        similarity_matrix = similarity_matrix.masked_fill(mask, -float('inf'))
        return F.cross_entropy(similarity_matrix, labels)

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4. Statistical Threat Detection via KL-Divergence on Byte N-Gram Distributions

Created statistical feature extraction pipeline computing 13 divergence metrics (KL, Jensen-Shannon, Canberra, etc.) across byte 1-4 gram histograms for ML-based malware classification.

  Binary File ──► Byte Stream
                      │
        ┌─────────────┼─────────────┐
        ▼             ▼             ▼
   1-gram hist   2-gram hist   3-gram hist
   (256 bins)    (65536 bins)  (truncated)
        │             │             │
        ▼             ▼             ▼
  ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
  ��  13 Statistical Features per gram:   │
  │  KL-Divergence │ Jensen-Shannon │    │
  │  Canberra │ Manhattan │ Chebyshev │  │
  │  Entropy │ Correlation │ ...        │
  └──────────────────┬───────────────────┘
                     ▼
            52-dim Feature Vector ──► ML Classifier

# Phase1-Detection/scripts/statistical_features.py

def extract_ngram_histogram(self, data: bytes, n: int) -> np.ndarray:
    """Extract normalized n-gram frequency histogram from byte data"""
    if len(data) < n:
        return np.zeros(256**n if n <= 2 else self.max_ngram_size)

    ngrams = []
    for i in range(len(data) - n + 1):
        ngram = sum(data[i+j] * (256**(n-1-j)) for j in range(n))
        ngrams.append(ngram)

    counter = Counter(ngrams)
    if n <= 2:
        histogram = np.zeros(256**n)
        for ngram, count in counter.items():
            histogram[ngram] = count
    else:
        histogram = np.zeros(self.max_ngram_size)
        for ngram, count in counter.items():
            histogram[ngram % self.max_ngram_size] += count

    total = histogram.sum()
    if total > 0:
        histogram = histogram / total
    return histogram

def kullback_leibler_divergence(self, hist: np.ndarray, ref: np.ndarray) -> float:
    """KL Divergence: D_KL(P||Q) = sum(p_i * log(p_i / q_i))"""
    epsilon = 1e-10
    hist = hist + epsilon
    ref = ref + epsilon
    return np.sum(hist * np.log(hist / ref))

def extract_13_features(self, hist: np.ndarray, ref: np.ndarray) -> List[float]:
    """Extract 13 statistical divergence features from histogram pair"""
    return [
        self.simpsons_index(hist),
        self.canberra_distance(hist, ref),
        self.minkowski_distance(hist, ref, lambda_param=3),
        self.manhattan_distance(hist, ref),
        self.chebyshev_distance(hist, ref),
        self.bray_curtis_distance(hist, ref),
        self.angular_separation(hist, ref),
        self.correlation_coefficient(hist, ref),
        self.entropy(hist),
        self.kullback_leibler_divergence(hist, ref),
        self.jensen_shannon_divergence(hist, ref),
        self.itakura_saito_divergence(hist, ref),
        self.total_variation(hist, ref)
    ]

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5. Doc2Vec NLP Pipeline for Android APK Malware Classification

Built Doc2Vec vectorization pipeline converting APK hex dumps (Manifest + DEX) into 400-dimensional embeddings for SVM-driven malware classification.

  APK File ──► ZipExtract
                   │
        ┌──────────┴──────────┐
        ▼                     ▼
  AndroidManifest.xml    classes.dex
        │                     │
        ▼                     ▼
  bytes.hex()            bytes.hex()
        │                     │
        ▼                     ▼
  8-char token chunks    8-char token chunks
        │                     │
        ▼                     ▼
  Doc2Vec (200-dim)      Doc2Vec (200-dim)
        │                     │
        └──────────┬──────────┘
                   ▼
         400-dim Combined Vector ──► SVM Classifier

# Phase1-Detection/scripts/android_doc2vec.py

class AndroidDoc2VecExtractor:
    """Vectorizes Android APK hex dumps for SVM malware classification"""

    def __init__(self, model_path: Optional[str] = None, vector_size: int = 200):
        self.vector_size = vector_size
        if model_path and os.path.exists(model_path):
            self.model = Doc2Vec.load(model_path)
        else:
            self.model = self._create_mock_model()

    def extract_apk_components(self, apk_path: str) -> Tuple[Optional[str], Optional[str]]:
        """Extract Manifest and DEX as hex strings from APK"""
        manifest_content = None
        dex_hex_content = None
        with zipfile.ZipFile(apk_path, 'r') as apk_zip:
            if 'AndroidManifest.xml' in apk_zip.namelist():
                manifest_content = apk_zip.read('AndroidManifest.xml').hex()
            for name in apk_zip.namelist():
                if name.endswith('.dex'):
                    dex_hex_content = apk_zip.read(name).hex()
                    break
        return manifest_content, dex_hex_content

    def hexdump_to_tokens(self, hex_string: str, chunk_size: int = 8) -> list:
        """Convert hex string to token sequence for Doc2Vec"""
        return [hex_string[i:i+chunk_size]
                for i in range(0, len(hex_string), chunk_size)
                if len(hex_string[i:i+chunk_size]) == chunk_size]

    def extract_apk_features(self, apk_path: str) -> np.ndarray:
        """Generate 400-dim feature vector (200 Manifest + 200 DEX)"""
        manifest_content, dex_content = self.extract_apk_components(apk_path)

        manifest_vector = (self.infer_vector(manifest_content)
                          if manifest_content else np.zeros(self.vector_size))
        dex_vector = (self.infer_vector(dex_content)
                     if dex_content else np.zeros(self.vector_size))

        return np.concatenate([manifest_vector, dex_vector])

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Quick Start

# Phase 1: Detect malware
python Phase1-Detection/scripts/integrated_detector.py --file suspect.exe --format json

# Phase 2: Extract metadata
python Phase2-Metadata/scripts/metadata_extractor.py --file suspect.exe --assess-risk

# Phase 3: Reconstruct attack path
python Phase3-PathReconstruction/scripts/mft_timeline_extractor.py --mft C:\$MFT --focus-file suspect.exe

# Phase 4: Generate unified report
python Phase4-Reporting/scripts/unified_report.py

# ZORA: Predict attacker next moves
python ZORA/zora_predictor.py --observed-techniques T1486,T1059.001

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Installation

git clone <repository_url>
cd AegisAI

pip install -r Phase1-Detection/requirements.txt
pip install -r Phase2-Metadata/requirements.txt
pip install -r Phase3-PathReconstruction/requirements.txt
pip install -r Phase4-Reporting/requirements.txt
pip install torch torch-geometric networkx faiss-cpu  # HybridDetection

Requirements: Python 3.8+ | 8GB RAM min | Admin access for MFT extraction

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Project Structure

AegisAI/
├── Phase1-Detection/          # YARA, PE, Doc2Vec, Statistical ML
├── Phase2-Metadata/           # EXIF, Zone.ID, Browser Forensics
├── Phase3-PathReconstruction/ # MFT Timeline, Attack Chains
├── Phase4-Reporting/          # SQLite Case DB, Chain-of-Custody, Reports
├── HybridDetection/
│   ├── mirguard/              # GAT Encoder, Contrastive Learning, K-Means
│   └── gendfir/               # FAISS Vector DB, LLM RAG Pipeline
└── ZORA/                      # Threat Prediction Engine (89% accuracy)