/// <summary>
/// Logs all non-standard transactions.
/// This is useful for detecting which blockfiles/block are likely to contain hidden data.
/// </summary>
private static void LogNonStdTransactions(string[] files)
{
var sb = new StringBuilder();
var sb_transactions = new StringBuilder();
string current_file = null;
try {
int block_height = 0;
foreach (var file in files)
{
current_file = file;
foreach (var block in Block.ParseAll(file))
{
block.Height = block_height++;
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("processing block #{0}", block.Height));
foreach (var transaction in block.Transactions)
{
foreach (var txout in transaction.Outs)
{
var text_script = txout.Script.ToString();
if (DataChunkExtractor.Filter(text_script))
{
continue;
}
sb.AppendFormat("block {0} - transaction https://blockchain.info/tx/{1}", block.Height, transaction.TransactionHash);
sb.AppendLine();
sb.AppendLine(text_script);
sb.AppendLine();
sb_transactions.AppendLine(transaction.TransactionHash.ToString());
}
}
}
var folder = Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(file), "non-std scripts");
if (!Directory.Exists(folder))
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(folder);
}
var newfile = Path.Combine(folder, Path.ChangeExtension(Path.GetFileName(file), "txt"));
File.WriteAllText(newfile, sb.ToString());
newfile = Path.ChangeExtension(newfile, ".transactions.txt");
File.WriteAllText(newfile, sb_transactions.ToString());
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
throw new FormatException($"An error occured reading the file {current_file}. File might be corrupted or contain extra data. This also occurs when reading block files from old version of bitcoin core.", ex);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Logs all transactions that contains text strings.
/// </summary>
private static void LogTransactionScriptsTexts(string[] files, string output_file_inputscripts = @"e:\inputs_scripts_as_text.txt", string output_file_outputscripts = @"e:\outputs_scripts_as_text.txt")
{
string current_file = null;
foreach (var file in new[] { output_file_inputscripts, output_file_outputscripts })
{
if (File.Exists(file))
{
File.Delete(file);
}
}
try {
int block_height = 0;
foreach (var file in files)
{
current_file = file;
var sb_in = new StringBuilder();
var sb_out = new StringBuilder();
try {
foreach (var block in Block.ParseAll(file))
{
block.Height = block_height++;
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("processing block #{0}", block.Height));
foreach (var transaction in block.Transactions)
{
foreach (var txin in transaction.Ins)
{
// input scripts have to be valid, however, there is no doc for how they are formatted
// so we do this awful hack of attempting to extract text from it
var text = Helper.ExtractText(txin.Script.Raw);
if (text == null)
{
continue;
}
sb_in.AppendFormat("block ~{0} ({1:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}) - https://blockchain.info/tx/{2} - {3}", block.Height, block.Timestamp, transaction.TransactionHash, text);
sb_in.AppendLine();
}
foreach (var txout in transaction.Outs)
{
// output scripts are not required to be valid, but any currency going to them will end up lost if they arent
// because of this, there are 2 interpretation of every output script:
// 1- the script is valid (money is received), meaning the data will be encoded within relevant chunks
// 2- the script is invalid (money will be lost), meaning to interpret the script as raw binary data
// read the raw binary, convert to text
var text = Helper.ExtractText(txout.Script.Raw);
if (text != null)
{
// they always begin with 'v??' here, so remove that
sb_out.AppendFormat("block ~{0} ({1:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}) - https://blockchain.info/tx/{2} - {3}", block.Height, block.Timestamp, transaction.TransactionHash, text);
sb_out.AppendLine();
}
var text_script = txout.Script.ToString();
if (DataChunkExtractor.Filter(text_script))
{
continue;
}
// merge all chunks of data, that are hex encoded, into just one chunk
var all_chunks = Helper.ExtractScriptChunks(text_script);
text = Helper.ExtractText(Helper.HexDecode(all_chunks));
if (text != null)
{
sb_out.AppendFormat("block ~{0} ({1:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}) - https://blockchain.info/tx/{2} - {3}", block.Height, block.Timestamp, transaction.TransactionHash, text);
sb_out.AppendLine();
}
}
}
}
} finally {
File.AppendAllText(output_file_inputscripts, sb_in.ToString(), Encoding.UTF8);
File.AppendAllText(output_file_outputscripts, sb_out.ToString(), Encoding.UTF8);
}
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
throw new FormatException($"An error occured reading the file {current_file}. File might be corrupted or contain extra data. This also occurs when reading block files from old version of bitcoin core.", ex);
}
}