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Recovering Data from Deleted SQLite Records: Redux #3

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@sbinet

interesting post about recovering data:
http://linuxsleuthing.blogspot.ch/2013/09/recovering-data-from-deleted-sqlite.html

from struct import unpack

with open('some.db', 'rb') as f:
    data = f.read()

pageSize = unpack('>h', data[16:18])[0]

pageList = []

for offset in range(0, len(data), pageSize):
    if data[offset] == 13;
        pageList.append(offset)

for offset in pageList:
    page = data[offset: offset + pageSize]

    pageHeader = unpack('>bhhhb', page[:8])
    pageByte, fbOffset, cellQty, cellOffset, freebytes = pageHeader

    # get unallocated
    start = 8 + cellQty * 2
    end = cellOffset-start
    unalloc = page[start:end]
    print(offset, unalloc, sep=',')

    # get freeblocks, if any
    if fbOffset > 0:
        while fbOffset != 0:
            start, size = unpack('>hh', page[fbOffset: fbOffset + 4])
            freeblock = page[fbOffset: fbOffset + size]
            print(offset, freeblock, sep = ',')
            fbOffset = start

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