This application will trace in real-time all File I/O, TCP IP, ALPC and RPC operations performed by a given process. It works on Windows 7+ and requires .NET 4.5.2+. Wtrace stops when the traced process exits, or if you issue Ctrl+C in its command line.
Use pipeline to filter the events, e.g.: wtrace notepad | findstr "FileIO/Write"
It is possible to use wtrace as a PowerShell cmdlet. Please check the wiki for more details.
The available options are:
Usage: wtrace [OPTIONS] pid|imagename args
Options:
-f, --filter=VALUE Display only events which names contain the
given keyword (case insensitive). Does not
impact the summary.
-s, --system Collect system statistics (DPC/ISR) - shown in
the summary.
-c, --children Trace process and all its children.
--newconsole Start the process in a new console window.
--nosummary Prints only ETW events - no summary at the end.
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
-? Show this message and exit.
A sample trace session might look as follows:
PS temp> wtrace mspaint
1134,4316 (1072) FileIO/Create 'C:\' (0xFFFFFA801D789CA0) rw-
1135,2725 (1072) FileIO/Create 'C:\Windows\Prefetch\MSPAINT.EXE-B4A5B5E8.pf' (0xFFFFFA8023E185A0) ---
1135,5118 (1072) FileIO/Create 'C:\Windows' (0xFFFFFA8023E185A0) rw-
1135,5514 (1072) FileIO/Create 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\wow64.dll' (0xFFFFFA801D789CA0) rw-
1135,8384 (1072) FileIO/Close 'C:\' (0xFFFFFA801D789CA0)
1135,8542 (1072) FileIO/Create 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\wow64.dll' (0xFFFFFA801D789CA0) rw-
1135,8956 (1072) FileIO/Create 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\' (0xFFFFFA802110BD50) rw-
1135,9198 (1072) FileIO/Close 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\' (0xFFFFFA802110BD50)
1136,0825 (1072) FileIO/Close 'C:\' (0xFFFFFA801D789CA0)
1136,1668 (1072) FileIO/Create 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\wow64win.dll' (0xFFFFFA801D789CA0) rw-
1136,1873 (1072) FileIO/Close 'C:\' (0xFFFFFA801D789CA0)
1136,2049 (1072) FileIO/Create 'C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\wow64win.dll' (0xFFFFFA801D789CA0) rw-
...
1363,8894 (1072) FileIO/Read '' (0xFFFFFA80230F5970) 0x173400 32768b
1364,7208 (1072) FileIO/Read '' (0xFFFFFA80230F5970) 0x117400 32768b
1365,6873 (1072) FileIO/Read '' (0xFFFFFA80230F5970) 0x1CD400 32768b
1375,6284 (1072) FileIO/Create 'C:\Windows\win.ini' (0xFFFFFA801A43F2F0) rw-
1375,6702 (1072) FileIO/Read 'C:\Windows\win.ini' (0xFFFFFA801A43F2F0) 0x0 516b
1375,7369 (1072) FileIO/Create 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MAPI32.DLL' (0xFFFFFA8023E50710) rw-
1375,7585 (1072) FileIO/Close 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msxml6r.dll' (0xFFFFFA8023E50710)
1384,8796 (1072) FileIO/Read '' (0xFFFFFA801FDBFCD0) 0x58200 16384b
1385,3323 (1072) FileIO/Read '' (0xFFFFFA801FDBFCD0) 0x5C200 16384b
2318,6876 (1072) FileIO/Read '' (0xFFFFFA80230F5970) 0x209400 32768b
2319,3279 (1072) FileIO/Read '' (0xFFFFFA80230F5970) 0x213400 32768b
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