116.6. Processing EVTX files on Linux

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EVTX files collected from Windows systems can be processed on Linux with NXLog by using an external script.

Example 536. Reading EVTX files using Python

This example configuration uses the im_python module to execute a script and formats the events to JSON. The Python script uses the python-evtx module to read the events from the EVTX file.

nxlog.conf


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  <Extension xml>
    Module        xm_xml
</Extension>

<Extension json>
    Module        xm_json
</Extension>

<Input evtx>
    Module        im_python
    PythonCode    /opt/nxlog/etc/process_evtx.py
    <Exec>
        parse_windows_eventlog_xml($Message);
        delete($Message);
        to_json();
    </Exec>
</Input>

process_evtx.py

import Evtx.Evtx as evtx
import Evtx.Views as e_views

import nxlog

def read_data(module):
    nxlog.log_debug('Starting Processing EVTX')
    with evtx.Evtx('/tmp/security.evtx') as log:
        for record in log.records():
            event = module.logdata_new()
            event.set_field('Message', record.xml())
            event.post()

Output sample

{
  "EventReceivedTime": "2020-11-19T18:47:06.548281+01:00",
  "SourceModuleName": "evtx",
  "SourceModuleType": "im_python",
  "SourceName": "Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing",
  "ProviderGuid": "{54849625-5478-4994-a5ba-3e3b0328c30d}",
  "EventID": 5379,
  "Version": 0,
  "LevelValue": 0,
  "TaskValue": 13824,
  "OpcodeValue": 0,
  "Keywords": "0x8020000000000000",
  "EventTime": "2020-11-19T17:36:15.751457+01:00",
  "RecordNumber": 342859,
  "ActivityID": "{d9a2c36d-bc3e-0003-83c3-a2d93ebcd601}",
  "ExecutionProcessID": 872,
  "ExecutionThreadID": 956,
  "Channel": "Security",
  "Hostname": "PC1",
  "SubjectUserSid": "S-1-5-21-774634756-2905300177-2392840219-1003",
  "SubjectUserName": "John",
  "SubjectDomainName": "PC1",
  "SubjectLogonId": "0x00000000000ccd46",
  "TargetName": "MicrosoftOffice*",
  "Type": "0",
  "CountOfCredentialsReturned": "1",
  "ReadOperation": "%%8100",
  "ReturnCode": "0",
  "ProcessCreationTime": "2020-11-16 17:36:12.644609",
  "ClientProcessId": "12088",
  "EventType": "AUDIT_SUCCESS",
  "SeverityValue": 2,
  "Severity": "INFO"
}

Note	Sometimes events from the Windows Event Log contain values which need to be resolved using an external reference. Processing EVTX files using the python-evtx library may result in some events containing unresolved values.

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