A Dissect module implementing a parser for Microsofts Extensible Storage Engine Database (ESEDB), used for example in Active Directory, Exchange and Windows Update. For more information, please see the documentation.

This project is part of the Dissect framework and requires Python.

Information on the supported Python versions can be found in the Getting Started section of the documentation.

dissect.esedb is available on PyPI.

pip install dissect.esedb

This module is also automatically installed if you install the dissect package.

Impacket does not (yet) have native support for dissect.esedb, so in the meantime a compatibility shim is provided. To use this shim, simply install dissect.esedb using the instructions above, and execute secretsdump.py like so:

python -m dissect.esedb.tools.impacket /path/to/impacket/examples/secretsdump.py -h

Impacket secretsdump.py will now use dissect.esedb for parsing the NTDS.dit file, resulting in a nice performance improvement!

This project uses tox to build source and wheel distributions. Run the following command from the root folder to build these:

tox -e build

The build artifacts can be found in the dist/ directory.

tox is also used to run linting and unit tests in a self-contained environment. To run both linting and unit tests using the default installed Python version, run:

tox

For a more elaborate explanation on how to build and test the project, please see the documentation.

The Dissect project encourages any contribution to the codebase. To make your contribution fit into the project, please refer to the development guide.

Dissect is released as open source by Fox-IT (https://www.fox-it.com) part of NCC Group Plc (https://www.nccgroup.com).

Developed by the Dissect Team ([email protected]) and made available at https://github.com/fox-it/dissect.

License terms: Apache License 2.0 (https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). For more information, see the LICENSE file.