Tracecat

A general kernel trace analysis framework

Download

git clone https://github.com/kernel-cyrus/tracecat.git

Start to Run

Run on Linux or MacOS

Setup environment:

    1. Install python3
    sudo apt-get python3

    2. Install virtualenv
    pip3 install virtualenv

    3. Init virtual environment
    python3 -m venv ./venv

    4. Enter virtual environment
    source ./venv/bin/activate

    5. Install required packages
    pip3 install -r ./venv/requirements.txt

    6. Quit virtual environment
    ./venv/bin/deactivate

Then you can simply run by:

    1. Enter virtual environment
    source ./venv/bin/activate

    2. Run tracecat
    python3 tracecat.py

    3. Quit virtual environment
    ./venv/bin/deactivate

Run on Windows

Setup environment:

    1. Download and Install python3
    https://www.python.org/downloads/

    2. Install virtualenv
    pip install virtualenv

    3. Init virtual environment
    python -m venv .\venv

    4. Enter virtual environment
    .\venv\Scripts\activate

    5. Install required packages
    pip3 install -r .\venv\requirements.txt

    6. Quit virtual environment
    .\venv\Scripts\deactivate

Then you can simply run by:

    1. Enter virtual environment
    .\venv\Scripts\activate

    2. Run tracecat
    python tracecat.py

    3. Quit virtual environment
    .\venv\Scripts\deactivate

Build Binary Distribution

You can also build tracecat into executables, so that it can simply run without any installations.

Build Windows release

.\build\build_win.bat           (run on Windows)

Build Linux release

source ./build/build_linux.sh   (run on Linux)

Build Mac release

source ./build/build_mac.sh     (run on MacOS)

Then you can get distribution package from:

./build/dist/tracecat.zip

User Guide

See <a href="https://tracecat.kernel-tour.org/docs/user_guide" target="_blank">docs/user_guide</a>

Contact

Author: Cyrus Huang

Github: https://github.com/kernel-cyrus/tracecat