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(@bjh505)
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Hello,

Looking to find a way to search forensic image(s) for number lists instead of word lists. I know bulk extractor is a good tool or even Strings but cannot think of the expression I would use. Looking to find a 6 digit pin-code with numbers only. Have numerous images and haven't indexed any of them in my initial processing so was wanting to utilize a third party tool. Thoughts or tools anyone uses here for this? Thanks.

 
Posted : 13/11/2018 5:53 pm
(@dpathan)
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This would be the regex for searching 6 digits. /^([0-9]{6})/

http//downloads.digitalcorpora.org/downloads/bulk_extractor/BEUsersManual.pdf

 
Posted : 13/11/2018 6:07 pm
azrael
(@azrael)
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strings image.dd | grep '[0-9]\{6\}' | sort | uniq
Will match ( like the regex above ) all strings that contain 6 numbers in them, even if they are longer …

e.g. 12345678910 will match as well as 123456

If you want _just_ 6 digit number strings then add -ow to the grep ( match whole words & only show the match, not the whole line )

Forgive me though - do you really expect to reduce your search space significantly enough that this is preferable to just brute forcing a 6 digit numeric pin ?

EDIT I think that the regexp above would only match 6 digits at the start of the line because of the ^ …

 
Posted : 14/11/2018 1:41 pm
(@bjh505)
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"Forgive me though - do you really expect to reduce your search space significantly enough that this is preferable to just brute forcing a 6 digit numeric pin ?"

Unfortunately, the brute force software I am using in this circumstance is very slow so it's helpful to have suggestions.

Thanks so much, both of you. This will be very helpful.

 
Posted : 15/11/2018 2:42 pm
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