Didier Stevens

Friday 6 May 2016

Update: numbers-to-hex.py Version 0.0.3

Filed under: My Software,Update — Didier Stevens @ 0:00

To deal with a particular maldoc sample, I added an option to numbers-to-hex.py to deal with signed bytes (negative and positive numbers used to represent byte values).

Here is a video:

The manual:

Usage: numbers-to-hex.py [options] [[@]file ...]
Program to convert decimal numbers into hex numbers

Arguments:
@file: process each file listed in the text file specified
wildcards are supported

Source code put in the public domain by Didier Stevens, no Copyright
Use at your own risk
https://DidierStevens.com

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -m, --man             Print manual
  -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
                        Output to file
  -i, --ignore          Do not generate an error when a number larger than 255
                        is found
  -n NUMBER, --number=NUMBER
                        Minimum number of numbers per line (1 by default)
  -s, --signed          Numbers are signed bytes: add 256 if negative

Manual:

This program reads lines from the given file(s) or standard input, and
then extracts decimal numbers from each line. A decimal number is a
sequence of digits (optionally prefixed with a dash - for negative
numbers). All numbers found in a line are converted to hexadecimal and
outputed as a line. Hexadecimal numbers are separated by a space
character. If a number is smaller than 0 or larger than 255/0xFF, an
error is generated, except when option -i is used.
Option -s (--signed) indicates that the input numbers are signed
bytes: -1 is 0xFF, -2 is 0xFE, ...
Option -n NUMBER (--number) requires that at least NUMBER numbers are
present in the input line (the default is 1 number).

The hexadecimal numbers are written to standard output, except when
option -o is used. When option -o is used, the numbers are written to
the file specified by option -o.

numbers-to-hex_V0_0_3.zip (https)
MD5: EB8CE35EA272042211B1EADBE4606BE2
SHA256: 1CE2E7C6EF930C56024C0313C9FCE6E96A7FA6FC07893EAF06ACCC05A3D2C528

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