grokevt-ripdll(1)

📦 version 0.5.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ grokevt-ripdll(1) ✨

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about grokevt-ripdll — a manual page from section 1 of the grokevt docs. It's the little gremlin that digs message resources out of PE files. 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

grokevt-ripdll — a tool for extracting message resources from a PE-formatted file. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

grokevt-ripdll input-dll output-db

two args, no flags, no drama. she's lowkey minimal. ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the vibe: grokevt-ripdll parses a PE-formatted file — and yes, modern .exe and .dll files are examples of PE-formatted files, iykyk — and it extracts all the message resources. Every single one. No crumbs left. 🍓

Then it takes those resources and stores them in a Berkeley-style database file, which maps relative virtual addresses (RVAs) to the message resources themselves. Those RVAs are literally the things you'll find inside a windows event log file (the .evt extension ones) pointing at the proper message resource. 🔥

🫶 Real talk though: this utility is not intended to be used directly by end-users. It's a backstage crew member, not the main character. It's used by grokevt-builddb(1) to extract resources from all the DLLs/EXEs referenced in the registry. So like… respect the process. 👑

🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

  • input-dll — this is the PE formatted file you're extracting resources from. ngl it doesn't actually need to have a .dll extension, but it's most commonly used on DLLs, so the name stuck. 🙈
  • output-db — the database file where the RVA→message mapping gets stored. Careful bestie: if this file already exists, it will be overwritten. Gone. Poof. 💀 To extract the entries stored in this database, see grokevt-dumpmsgs(1).

💅 BUGS 💅

Probably a few. iconic honesty, honestly. This script has not been extensively tested with some guest platforms or with non-english systems. 😭

Also, the documentation used as a reference for PE formatted files was not complete or not completely accurate in places. Much guess-and-check took place. (the way that… okay. we were all doing our best.) 🧚

⭐ CREDITS ⭐

Original PE header code borrowed from the pymavis project. For more information, see:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/~arpi/pymavis/

Message resource parsing added by Timothy D. Morgan. 👑 thank you for your service.

👑 LICENSE 👑

Please see the file "LICENSE" included with this software distribution. 📜

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License version 3 for more details. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

grokevt(7) grokevt-addlog(1) grokevt-builddb(1) grokevt-dumpmsgs(1) grokevt-findlogs(1) grokevt-parselog(1)

go read your siblings' pages, they're all slaying in their own way. 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this came from the File Conversion Utilities manual, dated 20 June 2011 ✨ — so it's vintage but she still ate. mwah, stay hydrated, back up your databases 💅🎀

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