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jenderek

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phn-phonebook.trid.xml for Chipcardmaster phonebook *.phn
« on: October 30, 2020, 08:33:06 PM »
Hello trid users,

some days ago a friend of mine get a new SIM card for his phone. Before
installing the new card i read the data (telephone numbers, SMS messages
etc.) with a German software called Chipcardmaster found at website with
same name. That is expressed in side TrID definition by line like:
   <RefURL>http://www.chipcardmaster.de/</RefURL>

That software saves and reads telephone numbers and SMS text messages in a
format named "phonebook" with file name extension "PHN". That is expressed
in definition by line like:
   <Ext>PHN</Ext>

These files are described by ini.trid.xml as "Generic INI configuration"
(see appended output/trid-v.txt). So i run tridscan on these samples and i
get a trid definition file phn-phonebook.trid.xml.
I delete obviously garbage patterns (0xFF padding patterns). Such phone book
files start with characteristic ASCII text phrase. That is expressed by
pattern block:
   <Bytes>5B415554484F525D0D0A415554</Bytes>
   <ASCII> [ A U T H O R ] . . A U T</ASCII>
   <Pos>0</Pos>
and in global string section by line like:
   <String>CHIPCARDMASTER</String>
As second line is found equation like AUTHOR=Chipcardmaster, but i also
found misspelled variant like AUTOR=Chipcardmaster.

The file command also identifies such phone books as Generic INItialization
configuration with ini section starting with 6F (see appended
output/file-5.39.txt). Because such phone books are plain text files the
current file command use mime type text/plain (see appended
output/file-e_soft-i-5.39.txt). Instead of this generic one i choose a user
defined on. That is expressed by line like:
   <Mime>text/x-phn</Mime>

With the new definition the undetected Chipcardmaster phonebooks are now
described (see appended output/trid-v-new.txt). TrID definition, some
examples and output are stored in phn.zip. I hope that my XML file can be
used in future version of triddefs.

With best wishes
Jörg Jenderek

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Re: phn-phonebook.trid.xml for Chipcardmaster phonebook *.phn
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2020, 12:37:10 AM »
Many thanks!