SilkETW is a flexible C#
wrapper for
ETW, it is meant to abstract away the complexities of ETW and give people a simple interface to perform research and introspection. While SilkETW has obvious defensive (and offensive) applications it is primarily a research tool in it's current state.
For easy consumption, output data is serialized to JSON. The JSON data can either be analyzed locally using
PowerShell or shipped off to 3rd party infrastructure such as
Elasticsearch.
SilkETW is buit on .Net v4.5 and uses a number of 3rd party libraries, as shown below. Please see
LICENSE-3RD-PARTY for further details.
ModuleId Version LicenseUrl
-------- ------- ----------
McMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtils 2.3.2 https://licenses.nuget.org/Apache-2.0
Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent 2.0.36 https://github.com/Microsoft/perfview/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT
Newtonsoft.Json 12.0.1 https://licenses.nuget.org/MIT
System.ValueTuple 4.4.0 https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT
YaraSharp 1.3.1 https://github.com/stellarbear/YaraSharp/blob/master/LICENSE
Command Line OptionsCommand line usage is fairly straight forward and user input is validated in the execution prologue. See the image below for further details.
JSON Output StructureThe JSON output, prior to serialization, is formatted according to the following C# struct.
public struct EventRecordStruct
{
public Guid ProviderGuid;
public List<String> YaraMatch;
public string ProviderName;
public string EventName;
public TraceEventOpcode Opcode;
public string OpcodeName;
public DateTime TimeStamp;
public int ThreadID;
public int ProcessID;
public string ProcessName;
public int PointerSize;
public int EventDataLength;
public Hashtable XmlEventData;
}
Note that, depending on the provider and the event type, you will have variable data in the XmlEventData hash table. Sample JSON output can be seen below for "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Process" -> "ThreadStop/Stop".
{
"ProviderGuid":"22fb2cd6-0e7b-422b-a0c7-2fad1fd0e716",
"YaraMatch":[
],
"ProviderName":"Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Process",
"EventName":"ThreadStop/Stop",
"Opcode":2,
"OpcodeName":"Stop",
"TimeStamp":"2019-03-03T17:58:14.2862348+00:00",
"ThreadID":11996,
"ProcessID":8416,
"ProcessName":"",
"PointerSize":8,
"EventDataLength":76,
"XmlEventData":{
"FormattedMessage":"Thread 11,996 (in Process 8,416) stopped. ",
"StartAddr":"0x7fffe299a110",
"ThreadID":"11,996",
"UserStackLimit":"0x3d632000",
"StackLimit":"0xfffff38632d39000",
"MSec":"560.5709",
"TebBase":"0x91c000",
"CycleTime":"4,266,270",
"ProcessID":"8,416",
"PID":"8416",
"StackBase":"0xfffff38632d40000",
"SubProcessTag":"0",
"TID":"11996",
"ProviderName":"Microsoft-Windows-Kern el-Process",
"PName":"",
"UserStackBase":"0x3d640000",
"EventName":"ThreadStop/Stop",
"Win32StartAddr":"0x7fffe299a110"
}
}
You can import JSON output from SilkETW in PowerShell using the following simple function.
function Get-SilkData {
param($Path)
$JSONObject = @()
Get-Content $Path | ForEach-Object {
$JSONObject += $_ | ConvertFrom-Json
}
$JSONObject
}
In the example below we will collect process event data from the
Kernel provider and use image loads to identify
Mimikatz execution. We can collect the required data with the following command.
SilkETW.exe -t kernel -kk ImageLoad -ot file -p C:\Users\b33f\Desktop\mimikatz.json
With data in hand it is easy to sort, grep and filter for the properties we are interested in.
YaraSilkETW includes Yara functionality to filter or tag event data. Again, this has obvious defensive capabilities but it can just as easily be used to augment your ETW research.
In this example we will use the following Yara rule to detect Seatbelt execution in memory through Cobalt Strike's execute-assembly.
rule Seatbelt_GetTokenInformation
{
strings:
$s1 = "ManagedInteropMethodName=GetTokenInformation" ascii wide nocase
$s2 = "TOKEN_INFORMATION_CLASS" ascii wide nocase
$s3 = /bool\(native int,valuetype \w+\.\w+\/\w+,native int,int32,int32&/
$s4 = "locals (int32,int64,int64,int64,int64,int32& pinned,bool,int32)" ascii wide nocase
condition:
all of ($s*)
}
We can start collecting .Net ETW data with the following command. The "-yo" option here indicates that we should only write Yara matches to disk!
SilkETW.exe -t user -pn Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime -uk 0x2038 -l verbose -y C:\Users\b33f\Desktop\yara -yo matches -ot file -p C:\Users\b33f\Desktop\yara.json
We can see at runtime that our Yara rule was hit.
Note also that we are only capturing a subset of the "Microsoft-Windows-DotNETRuntime" events (0x2038), specifically: JitKeyword, InteropKeyword, LoaderKeyword and NGenKeyword.
ChangelogFor details on version specific changes, please refer to the
Changelog.
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