WDExtract : Extract Windows Defender database

WDExtract is the extract Windows Defender database from vdm files and unpack it.

• This program distributed as-is, without any warranty;
• No official support, if you like this tool, feel free to contribute.

Features

• Unpack VDM containers of Windows Defender/Microsoft Security Essentials;
• Decrypt VDM container embedded in Malicious software Removal Tool (MRT.exe);
• Extract all PE images from unpacked/decrypted containers on the fly (-e switch):
  • dump VDLLs (Virtual DLLs);
  • dump VFS (Virtual File System) contents;
  • dump signatures auxiliary images;
  • dump GAPA (Generic Application Level Protocol Analyzer) images used by NIS (Network Inspection System);
  • code can be adapted to dump type specific chunks of database (not implemented);
• Faster than any script.

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Usage

wdextract file [-e]

• file – filename of VDM container (*.vdm file or MRT.exe executable);
• -e optional parameter, extract all found PE image chunks found in VDM after unpacking/decrypting (this including VFS components and emulator VDLLs).

Example:

wdextract c:\wdbase\mpasbase.vdm
wdextract c:\wdbase\mpasbase.vdm -e
wdextract c:\wdbase\mrt.exe
wdextract c:\wdbase\mrt.exe -e

Note: base will be unpacked/decrypted to source directory as %originalname%.extracted (e.g. if original file c:\wdbase\mpasbase.vdm, unpacked will be c:\wdbase\mpasbase.vdm.extracted).

Image chunks will be dumped to created “chunks” directory in the wdextract current directory (e.g. if wdextract run from c:\wdbase it will be c:\wdbase\chunks directory). Output files always overwrite existing.

Build

• Source code written in C;
• Built with MSVS 2017 with Windows SDK 17763 installed;
• Can be built with previous versions of MSVS and SDK’s.

Credits : (c) 2019 WDEXTRACT Project