Event log recovery with EVTXtract

You already know how to export, sort and search through Windows event logs. Now it's time to learn how to recover deleted or corrupted event log artifacts. Thankfully, there is an open source tool by Willi Ballenthin that is capable of solving this problem: EVTXtract. The tool can recover EVTX fragments not only from RAW images, but also from unallocated space and memory dumps.

Getting ready

First of all, since EVTXtract is written in Python, make sure you have this installed on your workstation. If not, go to the official Python website, download and install it. Also, you will need python-evtx, which you can find in Willi's GitHub. Python-evtx is an EVTX parser, which is a dependence...