regrippy -- a modern Python 3 alternative to RegRipper
This is the public GitHub repository of RegRippy
We are aware of the existence of mkorman90/regipy, which has a similar goal. Both projects were developed in parallel, we were not aware of any other project like RegRippy when we started developing it.
Description
RegRippy is a framework for reading and extracting useful forensics data from Windows registry hives. It is an alternative to RegRipper developed in modern Python 3. It makes use of William Ballenthin's python-registry to access the raw registry hives.
The goal of this project is to provide a framework for quickly and easily developing your own plugins in an incident response scenario.
This tool will try its best to stay out of your way and quickly provide you with usable data:
# Get the computer name
$ regrip.py --root /mnt/evidence/C compname
JOHN-DESKTOP
# Get URLs typed in IE for all users on a machine
$ regrip.py -v --root /mnt/evidence/C --all-user-hives typedurls
regrip.py:info:Administrator
regrip.py:warn:Could not open key Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
regrip.py:info:John
https://google.com/?q=how+to+buy+bitcoin
All plugins should also support both a human-readable and machine-readable output (the Bodyfile format), allowing easy piping to mactime or other tools.
Install
RegRippy is available on PyPI and can be installed using pip:
$ pip install regrippy
If you want the bleeding-edge release, it can be installed like any other Python package using pip or setuptools:
$ pip install .
# Alternatively
$ python3 setup.py install
Symlinks will automatically be created for all plugins: for example, you can call the compname
plugin by running:
$ reg_compname -r /mnt/c/
Usage
usage: regrip.py [-h] [--system SYSTEM] [--software SOFTWARE] [--sam SAM]
[--ntuser NTUSER] [--usrclass USRCLASS] [--root ROOT]
[--all-user-hives] [--backups] [--verbose] [--bodyfile]
[--list]
plugin_name
Extract information from Windows Registry hives
positional arguments:
plugin_name Name of the plugin to run
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--system SYSTEM, -y SYSTEM
Path to the SYSTEM hive. Overrides --root and the
REG_SYSTEM environment variable
--software SOFTWARE, -o SOFTWARE
Path to the SOFTWARE hive. Overrides --root and the
REG_SOFTWARE environment variable
--sam SAM, -a SAM Path to the SAM hive. Overrides --root and the REG_SAM
environment variable
--ntuser NTUSER, -n NTUSER
Path to the NTUSER.DAT hive. Overrides the REG_NTUSER
environment variable
--usrclass USRCLASS, -u USRCLASS
Path to the UsrClass.DAT hive. Overrides the
REG_USRCLASS environment variable
--root ROOT, -r ROOT Path to the C: folder. Overrides the REG_ROOT
environment variable
--all-user-hives Work on all NTUSER.DAT and USRCLASS.DAT hives if
required. Requires --root. Overrides --ntuser and
--usrclass.
--backups Run the plugin on backup registry hives as well (does
not work for hives loaded from stdin)
--verbose, -v Be more verbose
--bodyfile, -b Force output in Bodyfile format
--list, -l List available plugins
Documentation & development
If you want to make your own plugin using the RegRippy framework, head over to the documentation right now!
You can also build the documentation yourself by running:
$ tox -e docs
Testing
This project uses tox to automate the testing process, as well as pytest for the test themselves.
Running the tests can be done by invoking:
$ tox -e py37
Credits
- This project is under copyright of the Airbus Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and distributed under the Apache 2.0 license
- keydet89 for his RegRipper project which was a great inspiration
- Willi Ballenthin for his python-registry framework
License
RegRippy is released under the Apache 2.0 license.