Add Prefetch table #7076

puffyCid · 2021-04-24T23:37:14Z

This PR adds prefetch parsing support to osquery. Prefetch files are an artifact of execution on Windows systems.
Prefetch files contains a large amount of valuable data such as:

Number of times an executable was executed
Up to eight timestamps of execution (Win8+)
The executable file size
Volume serial and volume creation timestamp
CRC/Prefetch hash
All files accessed during the first ten seconds an executable is launched
All directories accessed during the first ten seconds an executable is launched

Prefetch is valuable when trying to determine what files are accessed by an executable. For example the query data below shows 7zip compressing lsass.dmp to a 7zip file

osquery> select * from prefetch where filename like '%7z%' and accessed_files like '%DMP%';
                          path = C:\Windows\Prefetch\7Z.EXE-E3EC114E.pf
                      filename = 7Z.EXE
                          hash = E3EC114E
           last_execution_time = 1619305580
               execution_times = 1619305580,1619305560,1619305506,1619305479,1619305443,1619305440
                         count = 6
                          size = 104974
                 volume_serial = D49D126F
               volume_creation = 1443412570
      number_of_accessed_files = 25
number_of_accessed_directories = 7
                accessed_files = \VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\NTDLL.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\KERNEL32.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\KERNELBASE.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\LOCALE.NLS,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\PROGRAM FILES\7-ZIP\7Z.EXE,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\OLEAUT32.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSVCP_WIN.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\UCRTBASE.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\COMBASE.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\RPCRT4.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\BCRYPTPRIMITIVES.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\USER32.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WIN32U.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\GDI32.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\GDI32FULL.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ADVAPI32.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSVCRT.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SECHOST.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\OLE32.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\IMM32.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\PROGRAM FILES\7-ZIP\7Z.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CRYPTBASE.DLL,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\TEMP\TOTALLY_NOT_A_STAGING_DIRECTORY\DEFINETLYNOTSTEALING.7Z,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\TEMP\TOTALLY_NOT_A_STAGING_DIRECTORY\LSASS.DMP,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\EN-US\KERNELBASE.DLL.MUI
          accessed_directories = \VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\PROGRAM FILES,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\PROGRAM FILES\7-ZIP,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\EN-US,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\TEMP,\VOLUME{01d0f9a19c586134-d49d126f}\WINDOWS\TEMP\TOTALLY_NOT_A_STAGING_DIRECTORY

Prefetch files exist on WinXP to Win10. Starting with Win8 Prefetch files are typically compressed. This PR includes decompression support. This PR supports Prefetch files from Win7-Win10.

Some feedback I would appreciate in this PR are suggestions on how to handle all the accessed files and directories data. This list can be very large (2,000+ accessed files in some cases).
Are there any suggestions/recommendations on how to display that data nicely in the osqueryi or in general?

Finally, Prefetch is disabled on Windows servers (sometimes NTBOOT-<HASH>.pf may exist) so adding tests may be tricky?
Prefetch references:

Also the PR closes #2384

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

osquery/utils/windows/lzxpress.cpp

FritzX6 · 2021-04-30T13:59:03Z

👋

I've been testing alongside @puffyCid's commits and providing feedback via Slack.

A few usability items I encountered which others might wish to weigh in on.

Currently the table takes on average 300+ seconds to return when running a SELECT * FROM prefetch, I presume the bulk of the performance impact is the processing of the files_accessed column. On my test Windows laptop my prefetch files have numerous entries with files_accessed containing 500+ comma separated items, with a highest value of 2029 files.

For this reason, I am wondering if we want to instead to pursue one of the following paths:

Parse files_accessed column only when it is included in the SELECT statement, either via making it a hidden column so it is not included in SELECT *'s, or simply skipping that aspect of the parsing only when a SELECT statement is written to not include it (eg. SELECT path, filename, last_execution_time FROM prefetch).
Split the table and make a separate discrete prefetch_files_accessed table which the rest of the existing prefetch can be joined against. This would have the added benefit of letting us return the files_accessed data in a standard tabular format vs a very large comma separated list. However, I expect it would be less performant than retrieving in a single table (as it is done currently).

The other consideration which perhaps someone can comment on is I observe a stark difference in response time between this osquery table and some other Prefetch tools (namely WinPrefetchView from NirSoft which parses all prefetch near instantly). When I run osquery in verbose mode I can see the prefetch files being parsed in a serial fashion, I wonder if there is some way to parallelize parsing when more than one prefetch file is being parsed (I know nothing about what limitations might make this impossible or unfeasible).

Otherwise, I am really pleased with how this is progressing and I am excited to put this new table to work in various places!

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

alessandrogario

The new changes you made to add the prefetch.h file are really useful! Those functions can now be used to implement unit tests. We can create a windows/prefetch subfolder under tools/test_data with a set of sample input files (both correct ones and wrong ones) to test against.

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.h

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

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puffyCid · 2021-05-01T18:35:40Z

👋

I've been testing alongside @puffyCid's commits and providing feedback via Slack.

A few usability items I encountered which others might wish to weigh in on.

Currently the table takes on average 300+ seconds to return when running a SELECT * FROM prefetch, I presume the bulk of the performance impact is the processing of the files_accessed column. On my test Windows laptop my prefetch files have numerous entries with files_accessed containing 500+ comma separated items, with a highest value of 2029 files.

For this reason, I am wondering if we want to instead to pursue one of the following paths:

Parse files_accessed column only when it is included in the SELECT statement, either via making it a hidden column so it is not included in SELECT *'s, or simply skipping that aspect of the parsing only when a SELECT statement is written to not include it (eg. SELECT path, filename, last_execution_time FROM prefetch).

Split the table and make a separate discrete prefetch_files_accessed table which the rest of the existing prefetch can be joined against. This would have the added benefit of letting us return the files_accessed data in a standard tabular format vs a very large comma separated list. However, I expect it would be less performant than retrieving in a single table (as it is done currently).

The other consideration which perhaps someone can comment on is I observe a stark difference in response time between this osquery table and some other Prefetch tools (namely WinPrefetchView from NirSoft which parses all prefetch near instantly). When I run osquery in verbose mode I can see the prefetch files being parsed in a serial fashion, I wonder if there is some way to parallelize parsing when more than one prefetch file is being parsed (I know nothing about what limitations might make this impossible or unfeasible).

Otherwise, I am really pleased with how this is progressing and I am excited to put this new table to work in various places!

just to follow up on this/awareness, during my testing on 4 different VMs the prefetch parsing finished in about ~20-25 seconds. ~200 files, with files_accessed column containing 100+ entries to a highest of 2,001.
I compared it to zimmerman's Prefetch parsing tool PEcmd which parsed all the files in about ~15-20 seconds.
Im curious if others also get longer times?
Regardless, 300 seconds is way too long, if thats a concern i can make the files_accessed and directories_accessed hidden if that will help?

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

theopolis · 2021-05-30T03:15:28Z

Ok @puffyCid, do you mind running git pull and rebuilding with the changes I pushed? Let me know if the table is working as intended.

I think we should still investigate the decompression note I left (about not making a copy). And we should double check the runtime module loading behavior. I want to make sure we are consistent with how other places within osquery find and load modules at runtime.

farfella · 2021-05-30T04:45:49Z

Here is some sample code I wrote today that demonstrates using the structures based off of the documentation in the libscca project that you linked. Here I am showing file names in the header, file names in the info, and directories in the first volume (you can plop this in a console c++ project in visual studio) for both compressed and uncompressed prefetch. My main aim is more maintainable code, less code, and speed. Basically, if another developer has to revisit this code a year down the road, you want to help them as much as possible by removing complexity. This is in C but of course, you can easily transform it to C++. This code expects a file (see szFileName) under .\pf_samples.

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#define gle GetLastError

#ifndef STATUS_SUCCESS
#define STATUS_SUCCESS 0
#endif

#define PREFETCH_SIGNATURE_COMPRESSED '\x04MAM' // MAM\0x4
#define PREFETCH_SIGNATURE 'ACCS' // SCCA

typedef NTSTATUS(WINAPI * RTLDECOMPRESSBUFFEREX)(
    USHORT CompressionFormat,
    PUCHAR UncompressedBuffer,
    ULONG  UncompressedBufferSize,
    PUCHAR CompressedBuffer,
    ULONG  CompressedBufferSize,
    PULONG FinalUncompressedSize,
    PVOID  WorkSpace
    );

typedef NTSTATUS(WINAPI * RTLGETCOMPRESSIONWORKSPACESIZE)(
    USHORT CompressionFormatAndEngine,
    PULONG CompressBufferWorkSpaceSize,
    PULONG CompressFragmentWorkSpaceSize
    );

RTLDECOMPRESSBUFFEREX RtlDecompressBufferEx;
RTLGETCOMPRESSIONWORKSPACESIZE RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize;


#pragma pack(push, 1)
typedef struct _PREFETCH_COMPRESSED_HEADER
{
    DWORD Signature;
    DWORD TotalUncompressedSize;
    BYTE CompressedData[1]; // arbitrary size
} PREFETCH_COMPRESSED_HEADER, * PPREFETCH_COMPRESSED_HEADER;

typedef struct _PREFETCH_FILE_HEADER
{
    DWORD Version;
    DWORD Signature;
    DWORD Reserved1;
    DWORD FileSize;
    WCHAR FileName[30];
    DWORD Hash;
    DWORD Reserved2;
} PREFETCH_FILE_HEADER, * PPREFETCH_FILE_HEADER;

typedef struct _PREFETCH_FILE_INFORMATION
{
    DWORD FileMetricsArrayOffset;
    DWORD NumberOfMetricEntries;
    DWORD TraceChainsArrayOffset;
    DWORD NumberOfTraceChains;
    DWORD FileNameStringsOffset;
    DWORD FileNameStringsSize;          
    DWORD VolumeInformationOffset;
    DWORD NumberOfVolumes;
    DWORD VolumesInformationSize;   // don't care after this field...
    FILETIME LastRunTime;
    DWORD Reserved1[4];
    DWORD RunCount;
    DWORD Reserved2;
} PREFETCH_FILE_INFORMATION, * PPREFETCH_FILE_INFORMATION;

typedef struct _PREFETCH_VOLUME_INFORMATION
{
    DWORD VolumePathOffset;
    DWORD VolumeDevicePathNumberOfCharacters;
    FILETIME VolumeCreationTime;
    DWORD VolumeSerialNumber;
    DWORD FileReferencesOffset;
    DWORD FileReferencesDataSize;
    DWORD DirectoryStringsOffset;
    DWORD NumberOfDirectoryStrings; // don't care after this field...
    DWORD Reserved1;
} PREFETCH_VOLUME_INFORMATION, * PPREFETCH_VOLUME_INFORMATION;

typedef struct _DIRECTORY_STRING
{
    USHORT Size;
    WCHAR Directory[1];
} DIRECTORY_STRING, * PDIRECTORY_STRING;

#pragma pack(pop)

const wchar_t szFileName[] = L".\\pf_samples\\CALC.EXE-77FDF17F.pf";
//const wchar_t szFileName[] = L".\\pf_samples\\ACRORD32.EXE-41B0A0C7.pf";

BOOL DecompressLZxpress(PBYTE pCompressedData,
                        const DWORD CompressedSize,
                        PUCHAR pUncompressedResult,
                        const DWORD TotalUncompressedSize)
{
    BOOL result = FALSE;
    DWORD FinalUncompressedSize;
    PVOID pFragment;

    ULONG CompressBufferWorkSpaceSize;
    ULONG CompressFragmentWorkSpaceSize;
    NTSTATUS status = RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize(COMPRESSION_FORMAT_XPRESS_HUFF,
                                                     &CompressBufferWorkSpaceSize,
                                                     &CompressFragmentWorkSpaceSize);
    if (STATUS_SUCCESS == status)
    {
        pFragment = malloc(CompressFragmentWorkSpaceSize);
        if (NULL != pFragment)
        {

            status = RtlDecompressBufferEx(COMPRESSION_FORMAT_XPRESS_HUFF,
                                           pUncompressedResult,
                                           TotalUncompressedSize,
                                           pCompressedData,
                                           CompressedSize,
                                           &FinalUncompressedSize,
                                           pFragment);
            if (STATUS_SUCCESS == status)
            {
                result = TRUE;
            }

            free(pFragment);
        }
    }

    return result;
}

VOID ParseUncompressedPrefetch(PUCHAR pucUncompressedPrefetch, DWORD dwSize)
{
    PPREFETCH_FILE_HEADER pPrefetchFile = (PPREFETCH_FILE_HEADER)pucUncompressedPrefetch;

    if (PREFETCH_SIGNATURE == pPrefetchFile->Signature)
    {
        printf("File name: %ls\n", pPrefetchFile->FileName);
        printf("Prefetch version: %d\n", pPrefetchFile->Version);
        printf("Hash: %x\n", pPrefetchFile->Hash);

        PPREFETCH_FILE_INFORMATION pFileInfo = (PPREFETCH_FILE_INFORMATION)(pucUncompressedPrefetch + sizeof(PREFETCH_FILE_HEADER));

        if (pFileInfo->FileNameStringsSize > 0)
        {
            PWCHAR pFileNameString = (PWCHAR)(pucUncompressedPrefetch + pFileInfo->FileNameStringsOffset);
            while (*pFileNameString)
            {
                size_t len = wcslen(pFileNameString);
                printf("File Name: %ls\n", pFileNameString);
                pFileNameString += len + 1;
            }

        }


        if (pFileInfo->VolumesInformationSize > 0)
        {
            PPREFETCH_VOLUME_INFORMATION pVolumeInfo = (PPREFETCH_VOLUME_INFORMATION)(pucUncompressedPrefetch + pFileInfo->VolumeInformationOffset);
            if (NULL != pVolumeInfo)
            {
                if (pVolumeInfo->NumberOfDirectoryStrings > 0)
                {
                    PDIRECTORY_STRING pDirectoryString = (PDIRECTORY_STRING)((PUCHAR)pVolumeInfo + pVolumeInfo->DirectoryStringsOffset);
                    while (pDirectoryString->Size > 0)
                    {
                        printf("%ls\n", pDirectoryString->Directory);
                        pDirectoryString = (PDIRECTORY_STRING)(pDirectoryString->Directory + pDirectoryString->Size + 1);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }


}


DWORD ParsePrefetch(LPCWSTR pszFileName)
{
    DWORD le = NOERROR;
    HANDLE handle = CreateFile(pszFileName, GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);

    if (INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE != handle)
    {
        DWORD FileSize = GetFileSize(handle, NULL);
        if (FileSize > 0)
        {
            PBYTE pFileData = (PBYTE)malloc(FileSize);
            PUCHAR pUncompressedResult;
            if (NULL != pFileData)
            {
                DWORD AmountRead;
                if (ReadFile(handle, pFileData, FileSize, &AmountRead, NULL) && FileSize == AmountRead)
                {
                    PPREFETCH_COMPRESSED_HEADER pCompressed = (PPREFETCH_COMPRESSED_HEADER)pFileData;
                    if (PREFETCH_SIGNATURE_COMPRESSED == pCompressed->Signature)
                    {
                        pUncompressedResult = (PUCHAR)malloc(pCompressed->TotalUncompressedSize);
                        if (NULL != pUncompressedResult)
                        {
                            if (DecompressLZxpress(pCompressed->CompressedData,
                                                   FileSize - FIELD_OFFSET(PREFETCH_COMPRESSED_HEADER, CompressedData),
                                                   pUncompressedResult, pCompressed->TotalUncompressedSize))
                            {
                                ParseUncompressedPrefetch(pUncompressedResult, pCompressed->TotalUncompressedSize);
                            }

                            free(pUncompressedResult);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            le = ERROR_OUTOFMEMORY;
                        }

                    }
                    else
                    {
                        pUncompressedResult = pFileData;
                        ParseUncompressedPrefetch(pUncompressedResult, AmountRead);
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    le = gle();
                }

                free(pFileData);
            }
            else
            {
                le = ERROR_OUTOFMEMORY;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            le = gle();
        }

        CloseHandle(handle);
    }
    else
    {
        le = gle();
    }

    return le;
}

int main()
{
    int result = NOERROR;
    RtlDecompressBufferEx = (RTLDECOMPRESSBUFFEREX)GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle(L"NTDLL"), "RtlDecompressBufferEx");
    RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize = (RTLGETCOMPRESSIONWORKSPACESIZE)GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandle(L"NTDLL"), "RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize");

    if (RtlDecompressBufferEx && RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize)
    {
        result = ParsePrefetch(szFileName);
    }
    else
    {
        result = ERROR_NOT_FOUND;
    }

    return 0;
}

puffyCid · 2021-05-30T20:47:53Z

Ok @puffyCid, do you mind running git pull and rebuilding with the changes I pushed? Let me know if the table is working as intended.

I think we should still investigate the decompression note I left (about not making a copy). And we should double check the runtime module loading behavior. I want to make sure we are consistent with how other places within osquery find and load modules at runtime.

@theopolis thanks for the feedback and updates. The table is working as intended.
I based the runtime module loading behavior off of windows_security_center.cpp

puffyCid · 2021-05-30T21:02:45Z

Here is some sample code I wrote today that demonstrates using the structures based off of the documentation in the libscca project that you linked. Here I am showing file names in the header, file names in the info, and directories in the first volume (you can plop this in a console c++ project in visual studio) for both compressed and uncompressed prefetch. My main aim is more maintainable code, less code, and speed. Basically, if another developer has to revisit this code a year down the road, you want to help them as much as possible by removing complexity. This is in C but of course, you can easily transform it to C++. This code expects a file (see szFileName) under .\pf_samples.

Thanks for the feedback and example, though i think ur overestimating my C translation skills a little bit lol 😅
I think the recent updates should have addressed all the comments?
I am working on another PR/feature though (adding jumplist support to windows) and im using ur suggestions of trying/using structs to manipulate/copy the data for that table

farfella · 2021-05-30T22:12:46Z

I understand that the lift I am asking for is substantial, but this lift significantly improves the readability and maintainability of this code for folks who may need to update this code in the future. Consider that your code will likely run on tens of thousands of machines.

ucharToString isn't appropriate here as I mentioned before as these are UTF-16 WCHARs (two-bytes per character) and NULL-terminated. Looking at the libscca documentation, there is a case of WCHAR[30], there is a case of WCHAR strings that are NULL separated, and there's a case of structures each with a length prefix followed by a WCHAR string.
The code has number offsets, e.g., data_view.substr(16, 60), data_view[12], data[100], data[108], etc. A developer who is not aware of libscca documentation will not know what fields each are and will not know how to update this code. Using structures with documented fields helps future developers grasp the code they are updating and speeds up maintenance.

theopolis · 2021-05-31T16:28:12Z

I agree that the structure-based approach is best. Consider the example of me trying to improve performance. I was unsure if my changes effected correctness due to the fragility of having offsets.

I can port some of existing implementation to use the structures.

theopolis · 2021-05-31T19:03:17Z

^ I did a small amount of porting to using the structures. I will revisit later tonight and see how much farther I can get.

This seems safer and is maintaining the performance of the existing approach.

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

puffyCid · 2021-05-31T21:13:28Z

^ I did a small amount of porting to using the structures. I will revisit later tonight and see how much farther I can get.

This seems safer and is maintaining the performance of the existing approach.

ok, thanks.
i can assist with rewriting it to use structs as well, not sure though if you already started on other parts though

farfella

Thanks for the help, @theopolis! I need more free time. :D

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

osquery/utils/windows/lzxpress.cpp

theopolis · 2021-06-01T04:07:45Z

Ok folks, the porting should be finished. Please review.

@puffyCid I made some changes to the table spec. The most significant change is removing the multi-execution recording. I am not sure if we should include this information, my feeling is we can stick with only including a single last-run-time. Please push back on me if you feel otherwise.

puffyCid · 2021-06-01T05:11:57Z

Ok folks, the porting should be finished. Please review.

@puffyCid I made some changes to the table spec. The most significant change is removing the multi-execution recording. I am not sure if we should include this information, my feeling is we can stick with only including a single last-run-time. Please push back on me if you feel otherwise.

@theopolis thanks for porting this! and @farfella thanks for the suggestions!
i think the multi-execution timestamps would be useful to have. They could provide additional timestamps to pivot on when investigating a system. For example, if rclone.exe (or any executable) was executed multiple times the previous timestamps could provide additional ways to pivot to see if other activity occurred (ex: additional files created, more event logs to query, etc).
Also for all of my PRs ive been following zimmermans development ethos/advice of: "It is not up to a developer to decide what is relevant to include or exclude." (to a certain extent).
So i think in this case since it would good to include, especially since timestamps r incredibly valuable.

farfella

Looking good mostly-- just a couple of suggestions to help clarify things.

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

farfella · 2021-06-01T12:22:26Z

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

+    DWORD version) {
+  PrefetchVolumeInfo result;
+
+  const auto volume_header_size = (version == 30) ? 104 : 96;


Might be better if we used separate structs for each version instead of using a union. That way, you could perform version == PREFETCH_VERSION_30) ? sizeof(PREFETCH_VOLUME_INFORMATION_VER30) : sizeof(PREFETCH_VOLUME_INFORMATION_VER23) instead, which is more reader-friendly.

By the way, it appears there are more than two of these, e.g., version 17 is only 40 bytes.

Could u clarify this a bit?
The unions look related to the timstamps and run counts and not related to the volume info?
i did switch to using constants, which makes it a bit more reader-friendly.
Also i believe version 17 is for Windows xp?, which osquery does not support and this PR does not support either

I think what you now have is also fine. Basically, I was suggesting creating a separate structure for each version of volume header... but it's not necessary.

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

farfella · 2021-06-01T12:25:33Z

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

+  }
+
+  const auto version = prefetch_header->Version;
+  if (version != 30 && version != 23 && version != 26) {


let's define these on top,
e.g.

const unsigned long kPrefetchVersionWindows10 = 30; ...

and then use if (version != kPrefetchVersionWindows10 ...)

good idea, added constants

farfella · 2021-06-01T12:27:27Z

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

+  PrefetchFileInfo result;
+
+  FILETIME last_run_time;
+  if (version == 23) {


Here, it's best if we define these as constants on top and we can use a switch.

switch (version) { case PREFETCH_VERSION_WINDOWS10: ... break; case PREFETCH_VERSION_WINDOWS81: ... break; ...

switched to constants and switch

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

theopolis · 2021-06-01T18:20:01Z

Hey @puffyCid do you mind taking this PR back over? I won't have much time to make changes this week.

update constant volumesizes

theopolis

Just a few more things.

theopolis · 2021-06-05T18:42:40Z

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

+PrefetchHeader parseHeader(const PREFETCH_FILE_HEADER* header) {
+  PrefetchHeader result;
+  if (header->FileName[(sizeof(header->FileName) / sizeof(WCHAR)) - 1] ==
+      '\0') {


Does this also have to be L'\0'?

Yes, preferred. Also, in this specific case, substituting with the macro ARRAYSIZE(header->FileName) - 1 instead of (sizeof(header->FileName) / sizeof(WCHAR)) - 1 might be more clear.

Hmmm, in this case, if FileName is not NULL-terminated, result.filename remains empty. We ought to log these cases if we encounter them since this is not expected.

added L, switched to ARRAYSIZE.
I wasnt really sure if logging this is good? It feels a little too informational/debugging? Im not 100% what osquery considers appropriate logging vs excessive logging.
Although u have a good point that it if the filename is not NULL terminated then that would be unexpected and could be worth logging.
Added LOG(INFO) and check for empty string

theopolis · 2021-06-05T18:43:26Z

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

+    result.run_count = prefetch_file_info->ext.v30v2.RunCount;
+    for (const auto& entry : prefetch_file_info->ext.v30v2.OtherRunTimes) {
+      LONGLONG time = filetimeToUnixtime(entry);
+      if (time != -11644473600) {


What is this value? I see it in the code base a few times?

its the value returned if FILETIME is 0 (Jan 01 1601 00:00:00)

osquery/tables/system/windows/prefetch.cpp

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puffyCid added 11 commits April 16, 2021 15:49

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