Dump evtx to XML

evtx_dump.py

import mmap
import contextlib

import argparse

from Evtx.Evtx import FileHeader
from Evtx.Views import evtx_file_xml_view


def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description="Dump a binary EVTX file into XML.")
    parser.add_argument("evtx", type=str,
                        help="Path to the Windows EVTX event log file")
    args = parser.parse_args()

    with open(args.evtx, 'r') as f:
        with contextlib.closing(mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0,
                                          access=mmap.ACCESS_READ)) as buf:
            fh = FileHeader(buf, 0x0)
            print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\" ?>"
            print "<Events>"
            for xml, record in evtx_file_xml_view(fh):
                print xml
            print "</Events>"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()