Bintext 3.00 by Robin Keir
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:22 am
Bintext 3.00 by Robin Keir (tested under winXP - NOT tested under Win7)
A small (35k), very fast and powerful GUI text extractor / scanner that will be of particular interest to programmers,
but also to anyone interested in ferreting out character strings buried within binary files.
Bintext can extract text from any kind of file and will find and display plain ASCII text, Unicode (double byte ANSI) text
and Resource strings, providing useful information for each item in the optional "Advanced" mode
Notably, it also shows both the file offset and the memory offset of each string found. This is no mean feat :
images have different file and memory alignment values, and juggling the two is a very nice (and not so easy) refinement.
Recommended download for Bintext 3.0 version (see why hereunder):
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/do ... intext.zip
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Historical Note about Bintext versions.
Most of Rob Keir original utilities were developed while working for McAfee/Foundstone
They are now owned by McAfee and provided free of charge as part of McAfee
"Forensic Free Tools" archive.
http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/
When McAfee acquired most of Rob Keir's utilities (then owned by Foundstone), they swiftly injected their own copyright byline
in Rob's utilities, unaware they were mistakenly re-branding early versions, thereby reintroducing old bugs in their archived versions.
For instance, McAfee archived version of Bintext (3.03) is a defective regression of Keir's own ultimate good version, namely (3.00)
McAfee defective Bintext version (3.03) reintroduces an old bug ("Duplicated data in Advanced mode")
which was corrected by Rob Keir since version (2.08), and is still correct up to (3.00).
Bintext (3.03) is also missing the informative changelog file present in Keir's original (3.00) zip archive
So, user beware !
Cheers,
__philippe
A small (35k), very fast and powerful GUI text extractor / scanner that will be of particular interest to programmers,
but also to anyone interested in ferreting out character strings buried within binary files.
Bintext can extract text from any kind of file and will find and display plain ASCII text, Unicode (double byte ANSI) text
and Resource strings, providing useful information for each item in the optional "Advanced" mode
Notably, it also shows both the file offset and the memory offset of each string found. This is no mean feat :
images have different file and memory alignment values, and juggling the two is a very nice (and not so easy) refinement.
Recommended download for Bintext 3.0 version (see why hereunder):
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/do ... intext.zip
========================================================================================
Historical Note about Bintext versions.
Most of Rob Keir original utilities were developed while working for McAfee/Foundstone
They are now owned by McAfee and provided free of charge as part of McAfee
"Forensic Free Tools" archive.
http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/
When McAfee acquired most of Rob Keir's utilities (then owned by Foundstone), they swiftly injected their own copyright byline
in Rob's utilities, unaware they were mistakenly re-branding early versions, thereby reintroducing old bugs in their archived versions.
For instance, McAfee archived version of Bintext (3.03) is a defective regression of Keir's own ultimate good version, namely (3.00)
McAfee defective Bintext version (3.03) reintroduces an old bug ("Duplicated data in Advanced mode")
which was corrected by Rob Keir since version (2.08), and is still correct up to (3.00).
Bintext (3.03) is also missing the informative changelog file present in Keir's original (3.00) zip archive
So, user beware !
Cheers,
__philippe