A Dissect module implementing parsers for the thumbcache of Windows systems. This is commonly used to see which files were opened on a system.

For more information, please see the documentation.

The project currently only supports the Windows Vista+ indexed thumbcache. The Windows XP format is currently not implemented.

This project is part of the Dissect framework and requires Python.

Information on the supported Python versions can be found in the Getting Started section of the documentation.

dissect.thumbcache is available on PyPI.

pip install dissect.thumbcache

This module is also automatically installed if you install the dissect package.

This project uses tox to build source and wheel distributions. Run the following command from the root folder to build these:

tox -e build

The build artifacts can be found in the dist/ directory.

tox is also used to run linting and unit tests in a self-contained environment. To run both linting and unit tests using the default installed Python version, run:

tox

For a more elaborate explanation on how to build and test the project, please see the documentation.

The Dissect project encourages any contribution to the codebase. To make your contribution fit into the project, please refer to the development guide.

Dissect is released as open source by Fox-IT (https://www.fox-it.com) part of NCC Group Plc (https://www.nccgroup.com).

Developed by the Dissect Team (dissect@fox-it.com) and made available at https://github.com/fox-it/dissect.

License terms: AGPL3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html). For more information, see the LICENSE file.