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Downloads:

428

Downloads of v 2.0.0.52:

11

Last Update:

27 May 2025

Published Date:

27 May 2025

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Joakim Schicht

Tags:

logfileparser logfile parser ntfs digital forensics incident response dfir

LogFileParser

(Ready for review)

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2.0.0.52 | Updated: 27 May 2025

Downloads:

428

Downloads of v 2.0.0.52:

11

Published:

27 May 2025

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Joakim Schicht

LogFileParser 2.0.0.52

(Ready for review)

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Joakim Schicht. The inclusion of Joakim Schicht trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Joakim Schicht goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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sustainablelobster (maintainer) on 27 May 2025 08:02:02 +00:00:

User 'sustainablelobster' (maintainer) submitted package.

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 27 May 2025 08:34:52 +00:00:

logfileparser has passed automated validation. It may have or may still fail other checks like testing (verification).
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chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 27 May 2025 08:42:08 +00:00:

logfileparser has passed automated package testing (verification). The next step in the process is package scanning.
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chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 27 May 2025 08:54:11 +00:00:

logfileparser has been flagged as part of automated virus scanning.
Package virus scanning found that at least 1 file within, or downloaded by, the package has between 1 and 5 VirusTotal detections associated with it.
This is not enough detections to prevent the approval of this package version.

Description

Background

NTFS is designed as a recoverable filesystem. This done through logging of all transactions that alters volume structure. So any change to a file on the volume will require something to be logged to the $LogFile too, so that it can be reversed in case of system failure at any time. Therefore a lot of information is written to this file, and since it is circular, it means new transactions are overwriting older records in the file. Thus it is somewhat limited how much historical data can be retrieved from this file. Again, that would depend on the type of volume, and the size of the $LogFile. On the systemdrive of a frequently used system, you will likely only get a few hours of history, whereas an external/secondary disk with backup files on, would likely contain more historical information. And a 2MB file will contain far less history than a 256MB one. So in what size range can this file be configured to? Anything from 256 KB and up. Configure the size to 2 GB can be done like this, "chkdsk D: /L:2097152". How a large sized logfile impacts on performance is beyond the scope of this text. Setting it lower than 2048 is normally not possible. However it is possble by patching untfs.dll: http://code.google.com/p/mft2csv/wiki/Tiny_NTFS

Features

  • Decode and dump $LogFile records and transaction entries.
  • Decode NTFS attribute changes.
  • Optionally resolve all datarun list information available in $LogFile. Option: "Reconstruct data runs".
  • Recover transactions from slack space within $LogFile.
  • Choose to reconstruct missing or damaged headers of transactions found in slack. Option: "Rebuild header".
  • Optionally also finetune result with a LSN error level value. Option: "LSN error level".
  • Logs to csv and imports to sqlite database with several tables.
  • Optionally import csv output of mft2csv into db.
  • Choose among 6 different timestamp formats.
  • Choose timestamp precision: None, MilliSec and NanoSec.
  • Choose Precision separator at millisec.
  • Choose Precision separator at nanosec.
  • Choose region adjustment for timestamps. Default is to present timestamps in UTC 0.0.
  • Choose output separator. Option: "Set separator".
  • Configurable UNICODE or ANSI output. Option "Unicode".
  • Configurable MFT record size (1024 or 4096). Option "MFT record size".
  • Optionally decode individual transactions or partial transactions (fragment).
  • Option to reconstruct RCRD's from single or multiple transactions (fragments).
  • Option to configure broken $LogFile. Useful with carved RCRD's as input.
  • Option to skip fixups (for broken $LogFile, typically carved from memory).
  • Detailed verbose output into debug.log.
  • Configurable comma separated list of lsn's to trigger ultra verbose information about specific transactions into debug.log.
  • Configuration for 32-bit OS.
  • Configuration for binary data extraction of resident data updates.
  • Autogenerated sql for importing out put into MySql database.
  • Option to skip all sqlite3 stuff to speed up total parsing.
  • Optional command line mode. Supports errorlevel suitable for batch scripting.

Note on VirusTotal detections

This application is a compiled AutoIt script.
AutoIt scripts packaged in this way are often incorrectly flagged as malware.
This is issue is documented in the AutoIt Wiki here: https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/AutoIt_and_Malware


tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'

$ToolsDir = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"
$ZipPath = (Get-ChildItem -Path $ToolsDir -Filter 'LogFileParser_*.zip').FullName
Get-ChocolateyUnzip -FileFullPath $ZipPath -Destination $ToolsDir
Remove-Item -Path $ZipPath -Force

if (Get-OSArchitectureWidth -Compare 64) {
  New-Item -Path "$ToolsDir\LogFileParser64.exe.gui" -ItemType 'File'
} else {
  New-Item -Path "$ToolsDir\LogFileParser64.exe.ignore" -ItemType 'File'
}
tools\LICENSE.txt
From: https://github.com/jschicht/LogFileParser/blob/master/LICENSE.md

LICENSE

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2022 Joakim Schicht

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
tools\LogFileParser.exe.gui
 
tools\LogFileParser_v2.0.0.52.zip
md5: 0856E139343298C298511022910D638A | sha1: 37B7564C9D85869A796DE1B755556950F24D9800 | sha256: 39C42BB0245B91FFFABAEC03D3B77C3932FC03164CE12BFE460A05039A2E103C | sha512: 53D1FCC9800BFAFF64423944EE6E3AB0A68D763A1B91AD1A73EA4426DA9CB533F9C2B98B7B6D99D81CE05CC2CAF405AA2103CE2DBC95E5DA450694B74E18185B
tools\sqlite3.exe.ignore
 
tools\VERIFICATION.txt
VERIFICATION
Verification is intended to assist the Chocolatey moderators and community
in verifying that this package's contents are trustworthy.

Download zip package:
    URL: https://github.com/jschicht/LogFileParser/releases/download/v2.0.0.52/LogFileParser_v2.0.0.52.zip

Compare the SHA256 hash of the downloaded zip package with that of the embedded zip package:
    SHA256: 39C42BB0245B91FFFABAEC03D3B77C3932FC03164CE12BFE460A05039A2E103C

Log in or click on link to see number of positives.

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
LogFileParser 2.0.0.53 5 Sunday, June 1, 2025 Ready
LogFileParser 2.0.0.52 11 Tuesday, May 27, 2025 Ready
LogFileParser 2.0.0.50 153 Monday, May 22, 2023 Approved
LogFileParser 2.0.0.49 106 Sunday, January 22, 2023 Exempted

This package has no dependencies.

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