A parser of Windows Defender's DetectionHistory forensic artifact, containing substantial info about quarantined files and executables.

Based on reading the readme along with the help message that prints when I try to run the exe, I imagine the usage would be something like:

./dhparser.exe -f 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\' -r -o './results.txt'

...if I just want to recursively parse any files in the default directory. But rather, I just get a somewhat unhelpful error message:

usage: dhparser.exe [-h] -f FILE [-g] -o OUTPUT [-r] [-s] [-v]
dhparser.exe: error: the following arguments are required: -o/--output

However, I've included the options. I just clearly don't understand how to correctly use them. Maybe I missed something obvious in the documentation, but either way I think it would be better practice to have at least one example of a command to try out the tool.

Edit: That said, thanks for contributing your time toward an open source tool.

This Velociraptor artifact leverages Windows Defender DetectionHistory tool to parse and return the parameters of Windows Defender detections contained in Detection History files.

More detail :'/'|| caught in /. Moving on to next file... 1 of 1 DetectionHistory files found were successfully parsed, with output written to "op.txt" in 0.023249847 seconds.

I am getting this error when I try to run the script python3 dhparser.py -f /home/kali/Desktop/0.exe.zip -o op.txt even the output file is not generated

From README

The creation of these files is an after-product of Windows Defender's real-time/cloud-delivered protection(RTP) blocking threats such as Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs), viruses, worms, trojans, etc.

The files appear to be generated even with cloud-delivered protection turned off.

The file begins with a header, 0x0800000008, taking up the first 5 bytes in every known scenario

There are files under the MputHistory directory that start with the same 5 bytes that contain different information. So it does not look like to be a "signature" (as in something that uniquely identifies the DetectionHistory files)