import collections import sys def analyze_binary_file(file_path): # Define the length of the byte sequence you are interested in sequence_length = 4 # Use a defaultdict to count occurrences of each byte sequence byte_sequence_counts = collections.defaultdict(int) try: with open(file_path, 'rb') as file: # Read the entire file into memory (for very large files consider processing chunks) binary_data = file.read() # Get the total length of the file total_length = len(binary_data) # Loop through the binary data and extract each 4-byte sequence for i in range(total_length - sequence_length + 1): # Extract the sequence of bytes sequence = binary_data[i:i + sequence_length] # Increment the count for this sequence in the dictionary byte_sequence_counts[sequence] += 1 # Find the most common sequences most_common_sequences = sorted(byte_sequence_counts.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)[:20] # Get top 10 # Print out the results print("Most common 4-byte sequences:") for sequence, count in most_common_sequences: # Convert each byte sequence to a hexadecimal representation for readability sequence_hex = ' '.join(f'{byte:02X}' for byte in sequence) print(f"Sequence: {sequence_hex} - Count: {count}") except FileNotFoundError: print("File not found. Please check the file path.") except Exception as e: print(f"An error occurred: {e}") if __name__ == "__main__": if len(sys.argv) < 2: print("Usage: python script.py ") else: file_path = sys.argv[1] analyze_binary_file(file_path)