dissect.esedb
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.
Supersession notice
This project has been superseded by dissect.database, which provides the same functionality along with broader database support.
Requirements
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.
Installation
dissect.esedb is available on PyPI.
pip install dissect.esedb
This module is also automatically installed if you install the dissect package.
Tools
Impacket compatibility shim for secretsdump.py
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!
Build and test instructions
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.
Contributing
The Dissect project encourages any contribution to the codebase. To make your contribution fit into the project, please refer to the development guide.
Copyright and license
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.
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