Professional digital forensics tools built by a practitioner, for practitioners.
ShadowStrike is a family of open-source tools spanning two product lines — one for serious casework, one for competition. Every tool in the suite was born from a real gap identified in the field.
Professional digital forensic investigations.
Named for Strategos Autokrator — the title of supreme command held by Philip II and Alexander the Great.
| Product | Package | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Nika | niki |
Forensic parser — full spectrum evidence ingestion |
| Komanda | komanda |
Case management |
| Niska | niska |
Collaborative investigation review |
| Sila | sila |
Evidence management with immutable chain of custody |
| Vistina | vistina |
Legal review and forensic-to-legal production |
Digital forensics CTF competition toolkit.
Named for Megdan — the historic Macedonian field of contest where duels were decided.
| Product | Package | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Sarissa | sarissa |
Rapid-access CTF dashboard |
| Treska | treska |
Fast parser for zipped logical extractions |
| Poligon | poligon |
Practice simulator and training environment |
Every major forensic tool on the market — iLEAPP, aLEAPP, mac_apt, APOLLO, AXIOM, Arsenic — was tested against zipped logical extractions, the dominant evidence format in both CTF competitions and real-world mobile investigations. All six failed to handle them efficiently.
ShadowStrike was built to fill that gap.
- Niki — Nika forensic parser
- Komanda — Case management
- Niska — Investigation review
- Sila — Evidence management
- Vistina — Legal review
- Strategos — Suite overview
- strategos-lab — Development scratchpad and prototype workspace
- toolkit — Helper utilities and competition scripts
- ctf-writeups — CTF challenge writeups and solutions
All product names are Macedonian. They form a cohesive family with a shared heritage.
| Product | Meaning | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| Nika | Victory | NEE-ka |
| Komanda | Command | koh-MAN-da |
| Niska | Thread | NEES-ka |
| Sila | Force, power | SEE-la |
| Vistina | Truth | VEES-tee-nah |
| Sarissa | The long pike that made the Macedonian phalanx unstoppable | sa-RIS-sa |
| Treska | River cutting through Matka Canyon, North Macedonia | TRES-ka |
| Poligon | Military proving ground | po-LEE-gon |
All products are in active development. Placeholder releases are live on PyPI.
| Package | PyPI | Status |
|---|---|---|
niki |
pypi.org/project/niki | PEP 541 claim pending |
komanda |
pypi.org/project/komanda | ✅ Live |
niska |
pypi.org/project/niska | ✅ Live |
sila |
pypi.org/project/sila | ✅ Live |
vistina |
pypi.org/project/vistina | ✅ Live |
sarissa |
pypi.org/project/sarissa | ✅ Live |
treska |
pypi.org/project/treska | ✅ Live |
poligon |
pypi.org/project/poligon | ✅ Live |
GitHub: ShadowStrike-CTF