Event Log Format ================ The best reference found to date on the format: Schuster, A. (2005). Windows Eventlogs in der forensischen Analyse. In M. Thorbr?gge (Ed.), Proceedings of the 12th DFN-CERT Workshop "Sicherheit in vernetzten Systemen", Hamburg, March 2005 (pp. D1-D16). ISBN: 3-00-015369-1 And the associated presentation slides: http://www.dfn-cert.de/events/ws/2005/dfncert-ws2005-f4.pdf The info by Jamie French (aka Malik) which inspired the creation of GrokEVT: http://www.whitehats.ca/main/members/Malik/malik_eventlogs/malik_eventlogs.html Helpful chapter from "Windows NT Event Logging" (O'Reilly): http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winlog/chapter/ch02.html#40421 Other References ================ Micro$oft's PE executable format: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/publink/winresdump/winresdump/doc/pefile.html http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=pe Language Codes (exist in .rsrc sections of PE files): http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/intl/nls_238z.asp FormatMessage(): http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/debug/base/formatmessage.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/tools/tools/message_text_files.asp Converting binary SID's to text: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/15/89753.aspx Event Types: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/7e77c2f0-8835-4bea-b972-26edb2aceb3d1033.mspx System Error Codes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/debug/base/system_error_codes.asp