A library for fast parse & import of Windows Prefetch into Elasticsearch.

Overview

prefetch2es

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Fast import of Windows Prefetch(.pf) into Elasticsearch.

prefetch2es uses C library libscca.

Usage

When using from the commandline interface:

$ prefetch2es /path/to/your/file.pf

When using from the python-script:

from prefetch2es.prefetch2es import prefetch2es

if __name__ == '__main__':
    filepath = '/path/to/your/file.pf'
    prefetch2es(filepath)

Arguments

prefetch2es supports importing from multiple files.

$ prefetch2es file1.pf file2.pf file3.pf

Also, possible to import recursively from a specific directory.

$ tree .
pffiles/
  ├── file1.pf
  ├── file2.pf
  ├── file3.pf
  └── subdirectory/
    ├── file4.pf
    └── subsubdirectory/
      ├── file5.pf
      └── file6.pf

$ prefetch2es /pffiles/ # The Path is recursively expanded to file1~6.pf.

Options

--host: 
    ElasticSearch host address
    (default: localhost)

--port: 
    ElasticSearch port number
    (default: 9200)

--index: 
    Index name
    (default: prefetch2es)

--scheme:
  Scheme to use (http, or https)
  (default: http)

--pipeline
  Elasticsearch Ingest Pipeline to use
  (default: )

--login:
  The login to use if Elastic Security is enable
  (default: )

--pwd:
  The password linked to the login provided
  (default: )

Examples

When using from the commandline interface:

$ prefetch2es /path/to/your/file.pf --host=localhost --port=9200 --index=foobar

When using from the python-script:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    prefetch2es('/path/to/your/file.pf', host=localhost, port=9200, index='foobar')

With the Amazon Elasticsearch Serivce (ES):

$ prefetch2es /path/to/your/file.pf --host=example.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com --port=443 --scheme=https --index=foobar

With credentials for Elastic Security:

$ prefetch2es /path/to/your/file.pf --host=localhost --port=9200 --index=foobar --login=elastic --pwd=******

Note: The current version does not verify the certificate.

Supported Prefetch versions

  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista (SP0)
  • Windows 7 (SP0)
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 10 1809
  • Windows 10 1903

For more information, please visit libscca.

Appendix

prefetch2json

Extra feature. 🍣 🍣 🍣

Convert from Windows Prefetch to json file.

$ prefetch2json /path/to/your/file.pf /path/to/output/target.json

Convert from Windows Prefetch to Python dict object.

from prefetch2es import prefetch2json

if __name__ == '__main__':
  filepath = '/path/to/your/file.pf'
  result: dict = prefetch2json(filepath)

Output Format Example

Using the sample prefetch file of EricZimmerman/Prefetch as an example.

{
  "name": "CALC.EXE",
  "filenames": [
    "\\DEVICE\\HARDDISKVOLUME2\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32\\NTDLL.DLL",
    ...
  ],
  "exec_count": 2,
  "last_exec_time": 130974496211967500,
  "format_version": 23,
  "prefetch_hash": 2013131135,
  "metrics": [
    {
      "filename": "\\DEVICE\\HARDDISKVOLUME2\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32\\NTDLL.DLL",
      "file_reference": 281474976736310
    },
    ...
  ],
  "volumes": [
    {
      "path": "\\DEVICE\\HARDDISKVOLUME2",
      "creation_time": 130974525181093750,
      "serial_number": 2281737263
    }
  ]
}

Installation

via PyPI

$ pip install prefetch2es

via DockerHub

$ docker pull sumeshi/prefetch2es:latest

Run with Docker

https://hub.docker.com/r/sumeshi/prefetch2es

prefetch2es

# "host.docker.internal" is only available in mac and windows environments.
# For linux, use the --add-host option.
$ docker run -t --rm -v $(pwd):/app/work sumeshi/prefetch2es:latest prefetch2es /app/work/SAMPLE.pf --host=host.docker.internal

prefetch2json

$ docker run -t --rm -v $(pwd):/app/work sumeshi/prefetch2es:latest prefetch2es /app/work/SAMPLE.pf /app/work/out.json

Do not use the "latest" image if at all possible.
The "latest" image is not a released version, but is built from the contents of the master branch.

Contributing

CONTRIBUTING

The source code for prefetch2es is hosted at GitHub, and you may download, fork, and review it from this repository(https://github.com/sumeshi/prefetch2es). Please report issues and feature requests. 🍣 🍣 🍣

License

prefetch2es is released under the MIT License.

Powered by libscca.

Owner
S.Nakano
DFIR Researcher / Software Developer
S.Nakano
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