- This program is distributed as-is, without any warranty;
- No official support, if you like this tool, feel free to contribute.
- Unpack VDM containers of Windows Defender/Microsoft Security Essentials;
- Decrypt VDM container embedded in Malicious software Removal Tool (MRT.exe);
- Extract raw RMDX containers without unpacking (-ec switch);
- Merge base VDM file with delta file (-m switch);
- Extract all PE images from unpacked/decrypted/merged 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.
List of MRT extracted images, (version 5.71.15840.1) https://gist.githubusercontent.com/hfiref0x/e4b97fb7135c9a6f9f0787c07da0a99d/raw/d91e77f71aa96bdb98d121b1d915dc697ce85e2a/gistfile1.txt
List of WD extracted images, mpasbase.vdm (version 1.291.0.0) https://gist.githubusercontent.com/hfiref0x/38e7845304d10c284220461c86491bdf/raw/39c999e59ff2a924932fe6db811555161596b4a7/gistfile1.txt
List of NIS signatures from NisBase.vdm (version 119.0.0.0) https://gist.githubusercontent.com/hfiref0x/e9b3f185032fcd2afb31afe7bc9a05bd/raw/9bd9f9cc7c408acaff7b56b810c8597756d55d14/nis_sig.txt
wdextract file [-e] wdextract file [-ec] wdextract baseFile deltaFile -m [-e] wdextract baseFile -m deltaFile [-e]
- file - filename of VDM container (*.vdm file or MRT.exe executable);
- baseFile - filename of base VDM container;
- deltaFile - filename of delta file to merge with base file;
- -e optional parameter, extract all found PE image chunks from container after unpacking/decrypting/merging;
- -ec extract raw RMDX container without further processing (incompatible with -e and -m options);
- -m merge base VDM file with delta file.
Example:
- wdextract c:\wdbase\mpasbase.vdm
- wdextract c:\wdbase\mpasbase.vdm -e
- wdextract c:\wdbase\mrt.exe
- wdextract c:\wdbase\mrt.exe -e
- wdextract c:\wdbase\mpasbase.vdm -ec
- wdextract c:\wdbase\mpasbase.extracted c:\wdbase\mpasdlta.extracted -m
- wdextract c:\wdbase\mpasbase.extracted c:\wdbase\mpasdlta.extracted -m -e
- Input file 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.extracted). Raw containers will be extracted to %originalname%.rdmx. Merged files will be saved as %originalname%.merged. 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.
- When using merge command (-m) make sure that you are merging files previously unpacked/decrypted by WDExtract. E.g. if you want to merge delta for mpasbase.vdm which is mpasdlta.vdm then you need to unpack mpasbase.vdm and mpasdlta.vdm and only then merge unpacked results.
- Source code written in C;
- Built with MSVS 2017/2019/2022 with Windows SDK 17763/18362/20348 installed;
- Can be built with previous versions of MSVS and SDK's.
- PowerShell unpack script for packed VDM containers, https://gist.github.com/mattifestation/3af5a472e11b7e135273e71cb5fed866
- Windows Defender Emulator Tools, https://github.com/0xAlexei/WindowsDefenderTools
- Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux, https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary
- MpEnum, https://github.com/hfiref0x/MpEnum
- libmpclient, https://github.com/UldisRinkevichs/libmpclient,
- Windows Defender's VDM Format, https://github.com/commial/experiments/tree/master/windows-defender/VDM
No actual dumped/extracted/unpacked binary data included or will be included in this repository.
Uses ZLIB Data Compression Library (https://github.com/madler/zlib)
(c) 2019 - 2026 WDEXTRACT Project