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Alexis Brignoni
Alexis Brignoni
Certified Digital Forensics Examiner
Creator of LEAPPs · Podcast Co-Host · Python for DFIR
LEAPPs Downloads
3
Peer-Reviewed Papers
30+
Talks & Interviews
CISSP
ISC2 Certified
Podcast Episodes
GitHub Stars
About

Digital Forensics and Incident Response with 15+ years in the field. Mobile forensics specialist. Building open-source DFIR tools since 2019. Python for DFIR. Native Spanish speaker.

“Tool reports are not the data. The data is the data. Validate everything that matters.”

Credentials

Education — B.S. in Computer Science, Antillean Adventist University; M.B.A. in Management of Information Systems, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico

CISSP — ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Badges on Credly

SANS Institute — FOR 585 Advanced Smartphone Forensics, FOR 498 Battlefield Data Acquisition, Netwars DFIR Champion, recurring DFIR Summit speaker

Recognition — Extraordinary Visiting Scholar, FASTA University — Mar del Plata, Argentina

What I Do

Podcast — Co-host of Digital Forensics NowPodcast · YouTube Live

LEAPPs — Creator of the open-source DFIR platform for iOS, Android, vehicle & legal-return forensics; integrated into Autopsy, Paraben, Atrio, Evanole & Mobasi. leapps.org/releases

DFIR Python Study Group — Founder & facilitator; teaching examiners to read and write Python. Session playlist

Blog — Research & notes at abrignoni.blogspot.com

Opinions are mine only, are subject to change, and do not represent my employer or anyone else.

Jump to: LEAPPs · Papers · Talks · Links

LEAPPs Tools
🌋 LAVA — LEAPPs Artifact Viewer Application

LAVA is a modern reporting and visualization tool for the LEAPPs family of digital forensics parsers (iLEAPP, ALEAPP, etc.). It provides faster, efficient reporting of LEAPPs’ parsed data.

Video explanation & demo: youtube.com/watch?v=17TQn7IsM4E

How to make LAVA compliant artifacts: youtube.com/watch?v=qTgZUh4GPxk

Download: leapps.org/releases

📱 iLEAPP — iOS Logs Events and Plist Parser

A python based framework to quickly triage iOS full file system extractions and unencrypted iTunes backups. A community project.

Get it: leapps.org/releases

Demo: cellebrite.com — Getting Started

🤖 ALEAPP — Android Logs Events and Protobuf Parser

Shares the same codebase as iLEAPP but focused on Android forensic artifacts.

Get it: leapps.org/releases

17-min presentation: youtu.be/Wb35VKHfrgc

📂 RLEAPP — Returns Events Logs And Properties Parser

Takes web service legal returns, as well as user-initiated archives, and parses them for easy review.

Get it: leapps.org/releases

🚗 VLEAPP — Vehicle Logs Events And Properties Parser

Takes extractions from cars and parses them for interesting artifacts.

Get it: leapps.org/releases

Demo: cellebrite.com — What’s new with xLEAPP?

Research & Papers
🎓 Cited in academic research — view citations on Google Scholar
Peer Reviewed — User Notifications in iOS
Peer Reviewed — iOS Mobile Installation Logs
Peer Reviewed — Kik Messenger iOS analysis
SANS Reading Room — Six Steps to Successful Mobile Validation
SANS Reading Room — Identifying Android OS Version thru UsageStats
Mentioned — SANS iOS Third-Party Apps Forensics Reference Poster
Mentioned — DFIR Advanced Smartphone Forensics Poster
Mentioned — Android Third-Party Apps Forensics Poster
Forensic Pattern of Life Analysis
ALEAPP & iLEAPP in DFRWS Research Paper
iLEAPP in MDPI Research Paper
ALEAPP in Garmin for Android Research Paper
LEAPPs in Forensic Analysis of OpenAI ChatGPT Apps
DFPulse 2024 — LEAPPs & Podcast Mentioned
Exploring Frame Counts & Hashing Pixel Data
ALEAPP Used — Forensic Framework for Ray-Ban Meta AI Smart Glasses
So you found a python script. Now what?
iLEAPP Walkthrough by Hexordia
ALEAPP Walkthrough by Hexordia
RLEAPP Walkthrough by Hexordia
DFIR Python Study Group — Playlist
Mobile Forensics Explainer — iLEAPP
Mobile Forensics Explainer — ALEAPP
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Interviews
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Talks & Presentations
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Talks en Español
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Tool Integrations
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LEAPPs Walkthroughs
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Awards
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Album — Alexis Brignoni
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Coins & Achievements
Platforms
LEAPPs Web Page
LAVA — LEAPPs Artifact Viewer Application
Content
DFIR — YouTube Tutorials & Talks
Digital Forensics Now Podcast
Digital Forensics Now Podcast on Twitch
Blog — Digital Forensics Research
Newsletter — LEAPPs Mailing List
Community
Discord — LEAPPs
GitHub — Python Scripts for DFIR
Social
LinkedIn
Bluesky
Threads — 4n6_abrignoni
Mastodon
Instagram — Digital Forensics
TikTok
Resources
Certifications Digital Forensics Start.me Josh Hickman’s Mobile Test Images Digital Forensics Discord Android Forensics Reference iOS Forensics Reference Peer Review Checklist by Hexordia Parsed Extractions for LAVA Testing LEAPPs UI Language Translations
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