Zircolite – A Standalone SIGMA-based Detection Tool For EVTX, Auditd And Sysmon For Linux Logs

Standalone SIGMA-based detection tool for EVTX, Auditd, Sysmon for linux or JSONL/NDJSON Logs

Zircolite is a standalone tool written in Python 3. It allows to use SIGMA rules on MS Windows EVTX (EVTX and JSONL format), Auditd logs and Sysmon for Linux logs

• 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 be used directly in Python or you can use the binaries provided in releases (Microsoft Windows and Linux only). Documentation is here.

Requirements / Installation

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).

Quick start

EVTX files :

Help is available with zircolite.py -h. If your EVTX files have the extension “.evtx” :

<div class="highlight highlight-source-shell position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="python3 zircolite.py –evtx –ruleset python3 zircolite.py –evtx sysmon.evtx –ruleset rules/rules_windows_sysmon.json”>

python3 zircolite.py --evtx <EVTX_FOLDER/EVTX_FILE> --ruleset <Converted Sigma rules>
python3 zircolite.py --evtx sysmon.evtx --ruleset rules/rules_windows_sysmon.json