Developer's Guide
Contents
Truxton Developer's Guide
- How Truxton Works - High level overview
- Truxton SDK - For developing software with Truxton
- Debugging Tips
- UI - Truxton Analyst - Dev Guide
Truxton Stuff (A collection of developer's information on a variety of topics)
- Database Tables - A detailed look at several of Truxton's tables
- Add A New File Type - How to add a new file type to Truxton and exploit it
- Useful SQL Queries - Sample queries for accessing Truxton from a SQL tool (like dBeaver)
- Configuration System - All the different ways to configure Truxton
- TruxtonService.xml - The configuration file for the Truxton Service
- ETL Stages - What do they mean?
- Truxton URL Interface - For linking to Truxton
- How to Secure Truxton Services - If you need Truxton to run on a locked down machine
- Turn on Syslogging - Truxton can use syslog to send tremendous amounts of debugging data
- Watch Desktop Logs - Get a scrolling text view of logs
- Temporary Filenames - How to identify the source of temporary files
- Message Bus Drivers - How Truxton can be message queue technology agnostic
- Azure - Running Truxton on and engaging Azure services
- Debugging the Loader - Not that you'd ever need to...
- VC Redistributables - Where to get the latest version of C and .Net runtime libraries
- Message Bus Messages - The different messages that can be sent
- Load Validation - How to independently validate that Truxton is working correctly
- Identifying Databases - How Truxton identifies specific file types from generic databases
- Black Box - Using Truxton's Debugging Black Box
- Enable Crash Dumps - How to have Windows generate a dump file if a process crashes
Truxton File Formats
- Depot file format - The way Truxton stores file contents
- Load List file format - Details on the load script format
Data Types
Truxton uses lots of defined constants and enums. Here's a list of them.
- Carve Options - The meaning of carving option flags
- Content Status - The status of the contents of a file.
- Data Types - How the bytes in a file can be interpreted.
- Depot Types - The different types of data that can be stored in a depot.
- Depot Status - The different statuses of a depot.
- Entity Types - The types of artifacts in Truxton
- ETL Application Modes - The different modes of operation you can use in an ETL application
- Event Types - The types of events in Truxton
- File Export Criteria - The different criteria you can specify in the C API for exporting files
- File Export Options - The different options you can specify in the C API for exporting files
- File Content Origins - Tells you where the file contents came from
- Investigation Statuses - The different statuses of generic investigation
- Investigation Types - Some default types of investigations
- Load Configurations - The default paths media can take through the exploitation process.
- Location Types - The different types of geographic locations
- Media Load Percentage - A discussion about what the percent-complete value means during loading
- Media Status - The different states that media can be in
- Media Types - The formats of media that Truxton can ingest
- Message Participants - The types of participants in a communication
- Message Types - The different types of message that Truxton handles
- Object Types - The types of objects in Truxton
- Relation Types - The types of relationships between objects that Truxton supports
- URL Methods - The different reasons why a URL was retrieved
- URL Types - The types of URLs
Exploitation Hints
- File Format Research - Where to find details on files to exploit
- SQLite Queries
- Time Epochs
Code Dependencies
- vcpkg
- Win32 Foundation Classes
- VC Runtime redistributables aka VC REDIST, aka vc_redist, aka vc_redist.x64.exe
