010 Editor template for parsing Windows Registry TxR (.regtrans-ms) files

TxR.bt

//------------------------------------------------
//--- 010 Editor v8.0.1 Binary Template
//
//      File: Transactional Registry Transaction Logs (.TxR)
//   Authors: Willi Ballenthin <william.ballenthin@fireeye.com>
//   Version: 0.1
// Reference: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2019/01/digging-up-the-past-windows-registry-forensics-revisited.html
//------------------------------------------------

LittleEndian();

typedef unsigned char uint8_t;
typedef unsigned short uint16_t;
typedef unsigned int uint32_t;
typedef uint64 uint64_t;

typedef enum <uint16_t> TxrOperationType {
    OperationCreateKey = 1,
    OperationDeleteKey = 2,
    // "Operation types 3-8 are value write or delete.
    //  It is not known what the different types signify."
    OperationUnkValue3 = 3,
    OperationUnkValue4 = 4,
    OperationUnkValue5 = 5,
    OperationUnkValue6 = 6,
    OperationUnkValue7 = 7,
    OperationUnkValue8 = 8,
} TxrOperationType;

// from: https://github.com/williballenthin/python-registry/blob/master/Registry/RegistryParse.py
typedef enum <uint32_t> RegValueType {
    RegNone      = 0x0000,
    RegSZ        = 0x0001,
    RegExpandSZ  = 0x0002,
    RegBin       = 0x0003,
    RegDWord     = 0x0004,
    RegBigEndian = 0x0005,
    RegLink      = 0x0006,
    RegMultiSZ   = 0x0007,
    RegResourceList             = 0x0008,
    RegFullResourceDescriptor   = 0x0009,
    RegResourceRequirementsList = 0x000A,
    RegQWord     = 0x000B,
    RegFileTime  = 0x0010,
    RegUint8   = 0x101,
    RegInt16   = 0x102,
    RegUint16  = 0x103,
    RegInt32   = 0x104,
    RegUint32  = 0x105,
    RegInt64   = 0x106,
    RegUint64  = 0x107,
    RegFloat   = 0x108,
    RegDouble  = 0x109,
    RegUnicodeChar = 0x10A,
    RegBoolean = 0x10B,
    RegUnicodeString  = 0x10C,
    RegCompositeValue = 0x10D,
    RegDateTimeOffset = 0x10E,
    RegTimeSpan = 0x10F,
    RegGUID   = 0x110,
    RegUnk111 = 0x111,
    RegUnk112 = 0x112,
    RegUnk113 = 0x113,
    RegBytesArray  = 0x114,
    RegInt16Array  = 0x115,
    RegUint16Array = 0x116,
    RegInt32Array  = 0x117,
    RegUInt32Array = 0x118,
    RegInt64Array  = 0x119,
    RegUInt64Array = 0x11A,
    RegFloatArray  = 0x11B,
    RegDoubleArray = 0x11C,
    RegUnicodeCharArray = 0x11D,
    RegBooleanArray = 0x11E,
    RegUnicodeStringArray = 0x11F,
} RegValueType;

typedef struct TxrRecord {
    uint32_t magic;
    Assert(magic == 0x00280000, "unexpected magic");

    uint32_t unk1;
    uint32_t unk2;
    uint32_t record_size;
    uint32_t record_type;  // 0x1 or 0x4 or 0x10

    TxrOperationType operation_type;
    uint16_t padding1;

    // this value seems to be common across multiple records
    // maybe the transaction GUID
    uint8_t  maybe_id[0x10];

    // only support recort_type == 1
    // which seems to contain key and value creation and deletion
    if (record_type != 1) {
        return;
    }

    // offset 0x28
    uint16_t key_name_length1;
    uint16_t key_name_length2;
    Assert(key_name_length1 == key_name_length2, "unexpected key length");
    uint16_t name_unk1;
    uint16_t name_unk2;
    uint64_t name_u64;

    if (operation_type == OperationCreateKey ||
        operation_type == OperationDeleteKey) {
        uint32_t unk5;
        uint32_t unk6;
        uint64_t unk_u64; // seems to correlate with name_u64

        wchar_t key_name[key_name_length1 / sizeof(wchar_t)]<optimize=false>;

    } else if (operation_type == OperationUnkValue3 ||
               operation_type == OperationUnkValue4 ||
               operation_type == OperationUnkValue5 ||
               operation_type == OperationUnkValue6 ||
               operation_type == OperationUnkValue7 ||
               operation_type == OperationUnkValue8) {
        uint16_t value_name_length1;
        uint16_t value_name_length2;
        uint16_t value_unk1;
        uint16_t value_unk2;
        uint64_t value_u64;  // seems to correlate with name_u64

        RegValueType data_type;
        uint32_t data_size;
        uint64_t data_u64;  // seems to correlate with name_u64

        wchar_t key_name[key_name_length1 / sizeof(wchar_t)]<optimize=false>;
        wchar_t value_name[value_name_length1 / sizeof(wchar_t)]<optimize=false>;

        switch (data_type) {
        case RegSZ:
        case RegExpandSZ:
        case RegMultiSZ:
            wchar_t value[data_size / sizeof(wchar_t)]<optimize=false>;
            break;
        case RegDWord:
            Assert(data_size == 4, "unexpected data size");
            uint32_t value;
            break;
        case RegQWord:
            Assert(data_size == 8, "unexpected data size");
            uint64_t value;
            break;
        case RegNone:
        case RegBin:
            /* ...and everything else */
            uint8_t value[data_size]<optimize=false>;
        }
    } else {
        Assert(false, "unexpected operation type");
    }
} TxrRecord;


// parse at a specific, selected location by the cursor.
// the record starts with the bytes | 00 00 28 00 |
FSeek(GetCursorPos());
TxrRecord record;