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hello osquery windows folks, I am curious does osq...
# windows
t
hello osquery windows folks, I am curious does osquery get any data from 
wmic
output at all anywhere?
s
osquery doesn’t shell out. I wrote a kolide extension for doing 
wmi
queries through osquery. But that ships in the kolide product. So not a huge help
t
well what is that 
wmi
table for? Looking at the docs it implies I can use the windows query language to return results?
s
What 
wmi
table? I wrote a 
kolide_wmi
table, and shipped it in launcher, and did not document it. I think fleet lifted it into their code base, which is mostly, but perhaps not entirely, compliant with the license. But I don’t know what all they’re doing.
t
not a windows engineer but have done stints in the MSFT stacks in my career, they have just been few and far between at this point
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Windows Management Instrumentation Query Language (WQL) event query that specifies the set of events for consumer notification, and the specific conditions for notification.
s
I don’t know what that is. But the thing you pasted (which I was about to paste) looks like it’s for understanding something that generates events. (windows events is a windows logging system(
t
yeah we have some of the windows event tables turned on, but I am not not familiar with WQL
but on my windows VM I can do this:
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WMIC.exe datafile "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe" list full


AccessMask=18809343
Archive=TRUE
Caption=C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Compressed=FALSE
CompressionMethod=
CreationClassName=CIM_LogicalFile
CreationDate=20240312182146.364332-420
CSCreationClassName=Win32_ComputerSystem
CSName=TOMLARKIN23B2
Description=C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Drive=c:
EightDotThreeFileName=c:\program files (x86)\google\chrome\application\chrome.exe
Encrypted=FALSE
EncryptionMethod=
Extension=exe
FileName=chrome
FileSize=2118944
FileType=Application
FSCreationClassName=Win32_FileSystem
FSName=NTFS
Hidden=FALSE
InstallDate=20240312182146.364332-420
InUseCount=
LastAccessed=20240326181629.750978-420
LastModified=20240311200100.392708-420
Manufacturer=Google LLC
Name=C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Path=\program files (x86)\google\chrome\application\
Readable=TRUE
Status=OK
System=FALSE
Version=122.0.6261.129
Writeable=TRUE
these date/time stamps tho make me 😡
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LastAccessed=20240326181629.750978-420
LastModified=20240311200100.392708-420
s
wql is the sql’esque query language wmi uses.
t
yeah and IIRC 
wmic
is just the "binary version" of WMI
s
Huh, that is an osquery table. And looking at the implementation https://github.com/osquery/osquery/blob/dcd8594f8d8687cb13bc9540b5aad2c26c5f8d9e/osquery/tables/system/windows/wmi_event_filters.cpp#L20 it seems pretty clear. It’s the results of the wmi query: 
SELECT * FROM __EventFilter
Under the hood, osquery does know how to query WMI, but there’s nothing generic exposed. It’s used in table implementations
t
basically I have no good way to track application usage in Windows and that 
wmic
command I just shared was my attempt at tracking last used dates for the app
I am still learning how osquery internals work so i will read up on that stuff soon
s
I don’t know enough windows to know how to track last open time on things.
I can’t speak to the veracity, but https://superuser.com/questions/1749715/track-last-time-app-exe-was-launched-on-windows suggests a file based approach
Ah, but prefetch requires 
superfetch
be enabled. 🤷
t
well that 
wmic
query I posted above works in a powershell terminal lol but I will have to kick this over to my Windows engineer and hopefully she can educate us all on how to make it work
s
Well, as said at the beginning, osquery does not support arbitrary wmi queries.
t
well that is too bad then 😭
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