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Extract ASCII and Unicode strings using Python.
#!/usr/bin/env python
##########################################################################################################
##
## Like steroids for your strings!
##
## Original idea: @williballenthin
## Original link: https://gist.github.com/williballenthin/8e3913358a7996eab9b96bd57fc59df2
##
## Lipstick and rouge by: @herrcore
##########################################################################################################
import sys
import re
import argparse
from collections import namedtuple
ASCII_BYTE = " !\"#\$%&\'\(\)\*\+,-\./0123456789:;<=>\?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\[\]\^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\{\|\}\\\~\t"
String = namedtuple("String", ["s", "offset"])
def ascii_strings(buf, n=4):
reg = "([%s]{%d,})" % (ASCII_BYTE, n)
ascii_re = re.compile(reg)
for match in ascii_re.finditer(buf):
yield String(match.group().decode("ascii"), match.start())
def unicode_strings(buf, n=4):
reg = b"((?:[%s]\x00){%d,})" % (ASCII_BYTE, n)
uni_re = re.compile(reg)
for match in uni_re.finditer(buf):
try:
yield String(match.group().decode("utf-16"), match.start())
except UnicodeDecodeError:
pass
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Extract strings.")
parser.add_argument("infile", help="File to extract from.")
parser.add_argument('-a','--ascii',dest="ascii_only",action='store_true',default=False,help="Only extract ascii strings.")
parser.add_argument('-u','--unicode',dest="unicode_only",action='store_true',default=False,help="Only extract unicode strings.")
parser.add_argument('-o','--offset',dest="set_offset",action='store_true',default=False,help="Include string offset.")
parser.add_argument('--size', type=int, dest="string_size",help="Set minumum length of string to extract. Default: 4")
args = parser.parse_args()
with open(args.infile, 'rb') as f:
b = f.read()
#setup the min string size
if args.string_size == None:
string_size = 4;
else:
string_size = args.string_size
#should we print the string offset
if args.set_offset:
if args.ascii_only:
for s in ascii_strings(b,n=string_size):
print('0x{:x}: {:s}'.format(s.offset, s.s))
elif args.unicode_only:
for s in unicode_strings(b,n=string_size):
print('0x{:x}: {:s}'.format(s.offset, s.s))
else:
for s in ascii_strings(b,n=string_size):
print('0x{:x}: {:s}'.format(s.offset, s.s))
for s in unicode_strings(b,n=string_size):
print('0x{:x}: {:s}'.format(s.offset, s.s))
else:
if args.ascii_only:
for s in ascii_strings(b,n=string_size):
print('{:s}'.format(s.s))
elif args.unicode_only:
for s in unicode_strings(b,n=string_size):
print('{:s}'.format(s.s))
else:
for s in ascii_strings(b,n=string_size):
print('{:s}'.format(s.s))
for s in unicode_strings(b,n=string_size):
print('{:s}'.format(s.s))
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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