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Detection and recovery of NSA’s covered up tracks

ID: 4d6ca565-9cc2-50cc-9aa2-7bd197974385

STIX ID: report--4d6ca565-9cc2-50cc-9aa2-7bd197974385

Feed Name: Fox-IT blog

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2017-12-08

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: Wouter Jansen

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Fox-IT analysed 'eventlogedit', a module from the leaked DanderSpritz framework that removes Windows .evtx event records by altering surrounding record headers rather than deleting data. The report demonstrates how deleted records can be fully recovered, provides an open-source Python detection/recovery script and a Windows executable (with hashes), and recommends scanning archived and centralized logs for evidence of use.

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