Gargamel - A Forensic Evidence Acquirer

A Forensic Evidence Acquirer

Compile

Assuming you have Rust 1.41+ installed. Open terminal in the project directory and to compile a release build type

cargo build --release

Debug build can be compiled using

cargo build

Compiled executable is located at target/release/gargamel.exe or target/debug/gargamel.exe, respectively.

Set log level

If you wish to change the logging level:

Open src/main.rs
On lines 42 and 43 change LevelFilter::Info to (for example) LevelFilter::Trace for more detailed logging.
- Beware that the LevelFilter::Trace will log everything including passwords.

User guide

Right now, this app works only on Windows and the target computer must use Windows or Linux.

Make sure to have the following programs in the same directory as Gargamel.

psexec, download
paexec, an open source alternative to PsExec, download
winpmem, an open source memory image tool, download.
- Download the newest executable and rename it to winpmem.exe
plink and pscp, an open source CLI SSH/SCP clients, download
SharpRDP, an open source command executor using RDP, download
WMImplant, as open source PowerShell WMI command executor, download
7za.exe, a standalone console version of 7zip archiver, download

Note: We need both the psexec and paexec. Although both applications are supposed to be functionally equivalent they actually both have different behavior under some circumstances.

Unleashing the power of Gargamel

Gargamel needs to be launched from an elevated terminal to be fully functional. Currently it does not support the UAC dialog nor any kind of notification when running with limited privileges. When running with limited user privileges, then some operations like target memory dumping will not work.

Basic example

Assume you want to connect to a computer with the following parameters:

address 192.168.42.47
username Jano
password nbusr123

The following command will acquire firewall state, network state, logged users, running processes, active network connections, registry, system & application event logs using PsExec method. Evidence will be stored in the testResults directory relative to the location of Gargamel.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -o testResults

Gargamel will ask you for password of the remote user, in our example the password is nbusr123. Note that password will be hidden when typing.

It is also possible to specify the password directly as program argument.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -p nbusr123 -o testResults

Domain example

Assume you want to connect to a computer in a domain with the following parameters:

domain WORKSPACE
computer name JanovPC
username Jano
password nbusr123

The following command will acquire firewall state, network state, logged users, running processes, active network connections, registry, system & application event logs using PsExec method.

gargamel.exe -c JanovPC -u Jano -d WORKSPACE --psexec -o testResults

Or to skip password prompting specify the password directly.

gargamel.exe -c JanovPC -u Jano -d WORKSPACE --psexec -p nbusr123 -o testResults

Other connection methods

PsExec is one of the 5 supported connection methods. You can replace the --psexec with the following options:

--psexec
--psrem, if PowerShell remoting is configured on target machine.
--rdp, if RDP is enabled on target machine.
--wmi.
--ssh, if target machine uses Linux.

It is possible to use several methods at once. For example to use both PsExec and RDP one can use the following command.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec --rdp -o testResults

There is also a special switch --all that is equal to specifying --psexec --rdp --psrem --wmi.

Note: Launch parameters are order-agnostic, i.e. it does not matter in which order the parameters are specified.

Acquire memory

To acquire also memory dump, then simply add the -m flag to the program parameters, i.e.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -o testResults -m

If you wish to acquire ONLY the memory dump without other evidence then use the following command.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -o testResults -m --no-events-search --no-evidence-search --no-registry-search

This functionality is available only for Windows targets.

Run custom commands

Gargamel may run custom Windows CMD or Linux shell commands on remote machine.

First create a file custom-commands.txt with the following content.

# Will be run using any methodipconfig# Will run only when launching with at least one of --all, --psexec, --wmi methods:psexec:wmi ipconfig -all

Results of the above commands will be stored in the directory specified by -o option.

To run the above commands written in custom-commands.txt use the -e switch, i.e.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -o testResults -e custom-commands.txt

Download custom files

Gargamel is able to download remote files.

First create a file custom-files.txt with the following content.

C:\Users\Public\sss*C:\Users\Jano\danove.pdf # This line and the next one will be ignored# C:\Users\Jano\somBajecny.pptx

Note: Wildcards * and ? are supported but currently only in filenames, not parent directories, i.e. C:\Users\J*\danove.pdf will most likely not work.

Results of the above commands will be stored in the directory specified by -o option.

To run the above commands written in custom-files.txt use the -s switch, i.e.

gargamel.exe -c 192.168.42.47 -u Jano --psexec -o testResults -s custom-files.txt

All options

All supported switches are described below.

USAGE:    gargamel.exe [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] --user <user>FLAGS:    -a, --all                   Acquire evidence from Windows machine using all supported methods (PsExec, PsRemote,                                WMI, RDP).        --no-events-search      Disables Windows event logs acquisition.        --no-evidence-search    Disables acquisition of evidence that can be usually downloaded quickly (like ipconfig,                                firewall status etc..)        --no-registry-search    Disables target registry acquisition.    -h, --help                  Prints help information    -m, --mem-image             Optional: Memory dump of a target Windows machine.        --local                 Acquire evidence from local machine.        --nla                   Optional: Use network level authentication when using RDP. (Windows targets only)        --no-7z                 Optional: Disable 7zip c   ompression for registry & memory images.This will significantly                                decrease the running time, but WMI and RDP connections will probably not work properly.                                    (Windows targets only)        --psexec                Acquire evidence from Windows machine using PsExec. Requires both PsExec64.exe and                                paexec.exe in the current directory or in the path.        --psrem                 Acquire evidence from Windows machine using PowerShell. Requires both PsExec64.exe and                                paexec.exe in the current directory or in the path.        --rdp                   Acquire evidence from Windows machine using RDP. Requires SharpRDP.exe in the current                                directory or in the path.        --ssh                   Acquire evidence from Linux machine using SSH. Requires both plink.exe and pscp.exe in                                   the current directory or in the path.    -V, --version               Prints version information        --wmi                   Acquire evidence from Windows machine using WMI. Requires WMImplant.ps1 in the current                                directory or in the path and PowerShell 3.0+ on the host machine.Note: It is necessary                                to disable Windows Defender real-time protection (other AVs not tested).OPTIONS:    -c, --computer <computer>                        Remote computer address/name. [default: 127.0.0.1]    -u, --user <user>                                Remote user name    -d, --domain <domain>                            Optional: Remote Windows domain       -o, --output <local-store-directory>            Name of local directory to store the evidence [default: evidence-output]    -p, --password <password>            Optional: Remote user password. Skipping this option will prompt a possibility to put a password in hidden            way.To specify an empty password use `-p ""`        --redownload <re-download>            Optional: Download and DELETE specified file from target computer. Use this in case of previous failed            partially completed operation. For just downloading a file (without deleting it) please use a `search`            switch. If you specify a 7zip chunk (.7z.[chunk-number], e.g. .7z.004), then it will also automatically try to            download subsequent chunks.Use also with --psexec --psrem, --rdp, --wmi, --all    -r, --remote-storage <remote-store-directory>            Name of remote directory to be used as a temporary storage. (Windows targets only) [default:            C:\Users\Public]    -e, --commands <custom-command-path>             Optional: File with custom commands to execute on remote computer    -s, --search <search-files-path>            Optional: File with files names to be searched on remote computer. File names supports also `*` and `?`            wildcards on file names (but not yet parent directories).        --key <ssh-key>                              Optional: Name/path of SSH private key file. (Linux target only)        --timeout <timeout>            Optional: Timeout in seconds for long running operations.This option is a workaround for a bug in            WMImplant.ps1 amd SharpRDP.exe where finishing of a long running operation cannot sometimes properly close               the connection leaving the Gargamel in seemingly frozen state or executing the next operation with the            previous one unfinished on target site.Increasing this timeout may solve issues when acquiring registry or            memory image from target machine. [default: 300]

Known issues