Zircolite is a standalone tool written in Python 3. It allows to use SIGMA rules on MS Windows EVTX (EVTX and JSON format)
- Zircolite can be used directly on the investigated endpoint (use releases) or in your forensic/detection lab
- Zircolite is fast and can parse large datasets in just seconds (check benchmarks)
- Zircolite can handle EVTX files and JSON files as long as they are in JSONL/NDJSON format
Zircolite can be used directly in Python or you can use the binaries provided in releases (Microsoft Windows and Linux only). Documentation is here.
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You can install dependencies with : pip3 install -r requirements.txt
The use of evtx_dump is optional but required by default (because it is for now much faster), If you do not want to use it you have to use the --noexternal option. The tool is provided if you clone the Zircolite repository (the official repository is here).
Help is available with zircolite.py -h. If your EVTX files have the extension ".evtx" :
python3 zircolite.py --evtx <EVTX_FOLDER/EVTX_FILE> --ruleset <Converted Sigma rules>
python3 zircolite.py --evtx sysmon.evtx --ruleset rules/rules_windows_sysmon.jsonThe SYSMON ruleset used here is a default one and it is for logs coming from endpoints where SYSMON installed. A generic ruleset is available too.
python3 zircolite.py --evtx <JSON_FOLDER/JSON_FILE> --ruleset rules/rules_windows_sysmon.json --jsononlyℹ️ If you want to try the tool you can test with these samples :
- EVTX-ATTACK-SAMPLES (EVTX Files)
- MORDOR - APT29 (JSONL Files)
- MORDOR - APT3 (JSONL Files)
Everything is here.
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Russ McRee has published a pretty good tutorial on SIGMA and Zircolite in his blog
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César Marín has published a tutorial in spanish here
Florian Roth cited Zircolite in his SIGMA Hall of fame in its talk dugin the October 2021 EU ATT&CK Workshop.
Michel de CREVOISIER is doing an amazing work with SIGMA, MITRE Att&ck (c) and other projects. Check his work on mapping EVTX on the MITRE Att&ck (c) framework.
The Mini-GUI can be used totally offline, it allows the user to display and search results. To know how to use the Mini-GUI, check docs here.
Zircolite has been used to perform cold-analysis (in Lab) on EVTX in multiple "real-life" situations. However, even if Zircolite has been used many times to perform analysis directly on a Microsoft Windows endpoint, there is not yet a pipeline to thoroughly test every release.
- All the code of the project is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License
evtx_dumpis under the MIT license- The rules are released under the Detection Rule License (DRL) 1.0