A Dissect module implementing parsers for various database formats, including:
- Berkeley DB, used for example in older RPM databases
- Microsofts Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), used for example in Active Directory, Exchange and Windows Update
- SQLite3, commonly used by applications to store configuration data
For more information, please see the documentation.
dissect.database is available on PyPI.
pip install dissect.databaseThis module is also automatically installed if you install the dissect package.
Impacket does not (yet) have native support for dissect.database,
so in the meantime a compatibility shim is provided. To use this shim, simply install dissect.database using the
instructions above, and execute secretsdump.py like so:
python -m dissect.database.ese.tools.impacket /path/to/impacket/examples/secretsdump.py -hImpacket secretsdump.py will now use dissect.database for parsing the NTDS.dit file, resulting in a significant 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 buildThe 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:
toxFor 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 (dissect@fox-it.com) 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.