similar to: hivexml - Flattened vs. Expanded XML

Greetings. I am new to this list. I am writing to you about hivexml. Richard Jones told me that he was considering abandoning this program. Instead, I am willing to take over maintenance of it. I am involved in computer forensics. I are in the midst of developing an XML standard to describe the Windows Registry. There are several programs that export the windows registry at XML. I have

Thank you all for your suggestions! Richard W.M. Jones: > I keep meaning to write a comprehensive "virt-diff" tool. I needed it > myself just yesterday. Most interesting. I guess there are two reasons for creating such a tool: just compare the images (show the diff) and/or check for malicious additions in the other image. Did you consider implementing the former or both? Do

Dealing with "1601-01-01T00:00:00Z" is unnecessarily awkward, especially since the value only represents a 0 found in the data. Signed-off-by: Alex Nelson <ajnelson at cs.ucsc.edu> --- xml/hivexml.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/xml/hivexml.c b/xml/hivexml.c index cf11676..5030c24 100644 --- a/xml/hivexml.c +++ b/xml/hivexml.c @@

Some of the data in names and string values were being unsafely printed, causing some types of XML processors to fail (e.g. Python's Expat). This patch checks for printability of each character and outputs base64 with an encoding attribute for unsafe data. --- xml/hivexml.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Hello List, One of my project needs memory forensics of OpenSSH. Here is a brief description of the problem: I have a raw memory dump, and all of the kernel data structures (e.g., task_struct, mm_struct) have been figured out. Now, I want to retrieve the data structures (e.g., struct session_state) of an SSH process instance. Finding a session key (active_state->newkeys) could be an example.

The infrastructure for modified-time reporting has been essentially unused. These changes report the registry time by treating the time fields as Windows filetime fields stored in little-Endian (which means they can be treated as a single 64-bit little-Endian integer). This patch adds the node_mtime function to the visitor API. Signed-off-by: Alex Nelson <ajnelson at cs.ucsc.edu> ---

This changeset adds byte run reporters for node and value metadata in the hivexml program. This location reporting required several new ABI functions, which required new ABI return types. One benefit to the byte run functions is additional sanity checks, which have revealed new data or parsing errors when run on M57 patents images. An example error: Image: Charlie, 2009-12-11, available at

The infrastructure for modified-time reporting has been essentially unused. These changes report the registry time by treating the time fields as Windows filetime fields stored in little-Endian (which means they can be treated as a single 64-bit little-Endian integer). Some of the code changes necessary include: * Exposing the hive_h structure in the hivex header file (via generator.ml) *

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:21:44PM -0500, Todd Mummert wrote: > I've made some changes to hivexml.c, that I think addresses the > invalid XML that is being generated (as of version 1.3.3). I'm only > addressing invalid XML characters in string values and string-lists. > As I saw mentioned in earlier forum messages >

This patch adds value_byte_runs and node_byte_runs. Each byte run represents the offset and length of a data structure within the hive, one per node, and one or two per value depending on the length of the value data. These byte run functions also add additional data sanity checks as a hive is being parsed, mainly checking that a node address actually points to a node, and similarly for values.

This patch revises the value type information printed. It is also somewhat a test of how open to revision the output of a program is according to RedHat's policies, of which I am not very aware beyond strongly guaranteeing ABI compatability. Alex Nelson (1): Change value type output to standard names xml/hivexml.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 34

Reporting value data in attributes has two advantages: * The output of hivexml breaks Python expat processing if binary data makes it out. This was observed in Software hives. * Not having child text makes room for child elements. Signed-off-by: Alex Nelson <ajnelson at cs.ucsc.edu> --- xml/hivexml.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff

Hi all, Piping in here as someone who has worked on file system and Registry differencing for a few years now. Taking diffs of a storage system is not a straightforward task. Hopefully, this message saves you some re-implementation heartache. In the forensics world, there is a tool called Fiwalk, which enumerates the contents of a file system and its metadata (with some basic data summaries,

This patch adds value_byte_runs and node_byte_runs. Each byte run represents the offset and length of a data structure within the hive, one per node, and one or two per value depending on the length of the value data. These byte run functions also add additional data sanity checks as a hive is being parsed, mainly checking that a node address actually points to a node, and similarly for values.

Since some modules (`getopt', for example) may copy files into the build directory, `top_builddir/lib' is needed as well as `top_srcdir/lib'. -- GNU Gnulib manual, section 2.2 Initial import This fixes an in-tree build failure on a Debian/sid system (see below). hivexml could be built out-of-tree, but it turned out that due to a missing include path, in this case the

--- xml/hivexml.c | 5 ++++- xml/hivexml.pod | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/xml/hivexml.c b/xml/hivexml.c index b496bb6..8ba6594 100644 --- a/xml/hivexml.c +++ b/xml/hivexml.c @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[]) int open_flags = 0; int visit_flags = 0; - while ((c = getopt (argc, argv, "dk")) != EOF) { + while ((c =

New feature: If the root node of the XML root is the hive root node, denote with attribute/value root="1". Signed-off-by: Alex Nelson <ajnelson at cs.ucsc.edu> --- xml/hivexml.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/xml/hivexml.c b/xml/hivexml.c index 2967ac9..f29c80c 100644 --- a/xml/hivexml.c +++ b/xml/hivexml.c @@ -204,6 +204,10 @@

I'm trying to build hivex 1.2.7 on Ubuntu 10.04, and get the following failure: Making all in xml make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/sandbox/src/hivex/hivex-1.2.7/xml' CC hivexml-hivexml.o CCLD hivexml hivexml-hivexml.o: In function `main': /opt/sandbox/src/hivex/hivex-1.2.7/xml/hivexml.c:86: undefined reference to `rpl_getopt'

Hi, I'm trying to compile hivex library that I just discovered. I'd use binaries but I only have an i386 ubuntu and debian so I tryied to compile. ./configure finished with incouraging:: ----------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for downloading hivex 1.3.3 This is how we have configured the optional components for you today: OCaml bindings

Signed-off-by: Alex Nelson <ajnelson at cs.ucsc.edu> --- xml/hivexml.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/xml/hivexml.c b/xml/hivexml.c index d38e9d4..1a75593 100644 --- a/xml/hivexml.c +++ b/xml/hivexml.c @@ -247,6 +247,32 @@ node_end (hive_h *h, void *writer_v, hive_node_h node, const char *name) return 0;