WECollect - Windows Event Collect

Check out the new innovative forensic tools that can retrieve events from Windows post-mortem images.

This is a client-server architecture, and this is a client, you need to have the server running on your machine or remotely, see +info here.

Requirements:

  • Windows 10 disk image mounted in the system (You need to have a raw image of your disk e.g: convert .VDI to .IMG VBoxManage clonehd <nameOfOriginalVDI>.vdi <nameOfNewImage>.img --format RAW)
  • For MacOS/Linux users: you need to be able to read NTFS
  • Java 8
  • Python 2.7
  • python-evtx - pip install python-evtx

Usage:

java wecollect -windir <windows directory> -h <hostname> -u <username> -p <password>

Arguments:

To execute the program you need to pass this arguments:

-windir : the path to the Windows directory of the disk image (e.g: /Volumes/DiskImg/Windows)

To access the database your need to specify:

-h : hostname

-u : username -p : password