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+<?php
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# m_carve.php - Perform extraction of flows spanning multiple files
+#
+# Evan Stuart <evan.stuart@gtri.gatech.edu>
+#                     
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+//Given a start and stop file, the location of the files and their pre-fix, 
+//this function puts file names that fit the start-stop parameter and stores
+//the results in an array
+function carve($start, $stop, $dir, $pre){
+
+		//tokenize start and end file name by (.)
+		$start_token = explode(".",$start);
+		$stop_token  = explode(".",$stop);
+		//check to make sure file is in (prefix).(suffix) format (size 2)
+		if(count($start_token)!=2 or count($stop_token)!=2){
+			print "Invalid file name format, must be two strings separated by a period (eg. cxt.12345)\n";
+		}
+		else{
+			//assign start and end timestamp
+			$start_tstamp = $start_token[1];
+			$stop_tstamp  = $stop_token[1];
+			//store capture directory contents into variable
+			$dircontents = list_dir($dir,$pre);
+			//extract since it was passed from list_dir function
+			extract($dircontents);
+			//if first x digits match (in this case 6) then treat them as matches
+			//and add to the results array
+			$carve_results = array();
+			$j=$i=0;
+			for($i; $i<(count($dircontents)); $i++){
+
+				if(substr_compare($start_tstamp,$dircontents[$i],0,5)==0){
+					if($dircontents[$i]>=$start_tstamp and $dircontents[$i]<=$stop_tstamp){
+						$carve_results[$j]=$dircontents[$i];
+						$j++;
+					}	
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	
+	//sort results and return array
+	//print "Searched ".count($dircontents)." files and found ".count($carve_results)." matching search criteria:\n";
+	sort($carve_results);
+	return $carve_results;
+}
+
+//takes directory and file prefix and adds all files in the directory
+//with the given prefix to an array ($valid_files)
+function list_dir($directory,$pre){
+
+	$directory = $directory;
+	$open_directory = opendir($directory);
+	while($filename = readdir($open_directory)){
+		$filesplit = explode(".", $filename);
+		$check_prefix = $filesplit[0];
+		if($check_prefix==$pre){						
+			$valid_files[] = $filesplit[1];
+		}
+	}
+	closedir();
+	return $valid_files;
+}
+
+//Takes sorted list of files, the directory they are located in and the prefix of the 
+//file name as arguments and retrieves each file's size and stores it in an array
+function get_sizes($files_array,$dir,$pre){
+
+	for($i=0;$i<count($files_array);$i++){
+		$postfix = $files_array[$i];
+		$size =filesize("$dir"."$pre"."."."$postfix");
+
+		$size_array[$i] = $size;
+
+	}
+	return $size_array;
+
+}
+
+//Takes carved out files and their sizes as arguments along with user supplied arguments
+//to make calls to cxt2pcap.pl and produces an out file for each
+//call and stores it in a folder located in the /tmp/ directory
+function cxt2pcap($files2search,$file_sizes,$options,$direc){
+
+	extract($options);
+	extract($files2search);
+	$dirname = '/tmp/multicarve_results/';
+
+	//if tmp directory doesnt exist create it
+	if (!file_exists($dirname)) {
+	    mkdir($dirname, 0755);
+	} 
+
+	$j=1;
+	$outFiles = array();
+  	for($i=0;$i<count($files2search);$i++){
+			
+			//for each each outfile give it an unique identity to prevent collisions
+  			//and store them in outfiles array so you can pass the names to mergeFiles
+  			$outFiles[$i] = $dirname.md5(uniqid(mt_rand(), true)).'_out'.$j.'.pcap';
+
+  			//build the cxt2pcap search string, first file uses supplied -s argument other default
+  			//to 24, last file uses supplied -e argument the rest default to filesize
+			$search_string ='-r '.$direc.$pre.'.'.$files2search[$i].
+							' -w '.$outFiles[$i].
+							' --src-ip '.$options["srcip"].
+							' --dst-ip '.$options["destip"].
+							' --src-port '.$options["srcport"].
+						    ' --dst-port '.$options["destport"].
+						    ' --proto '.$options["proto"];
+						    //if its the first file set -s to provided start offset
+						    if($i==0){
+						    	$search_string.= " -s ".$options["s"];
+						    }
+						    //all other files use -s 24
+						    else{
+								$search_string.= " -s 24";
+							}
+							//for the last file use -e option rather than file size
+							if($i==count($files2search)-1){
+								$search_string.= " -e ".$options["e"];
+							}
+							else{
+								$search_string.= " -e ".$file_sizes[$i];
+							}
+			$command = 'perl cxt2pcap.pl '.$search_string;
+			exec($command,$out);	
+			print "Output for out".$j.": ".$out[$i]."\n";
+			
+			$j++;
+	}
+	return $outFiles;
+}
+
+function mergeFiles($outFiles){
+	
+	extract($outFiles);
+	//declare an empty string to use in for loop
+	$fileString = "";
+	for($i=0; $i < count($outFiles);$i++){
+		$file = $outFiles[$i];
+		if(!file_exists($file)){
+			print "ERROR!!\n";
+		}
+		else{
+		$fileString.=" ".$outFiles[$i];
+		}
+	}
+
+	//need to make result have uniqid to prevent access collisions
+	//executes mergecap command and saves output in tmp/multicarve_results
+	$id = md5(uniqid(mt_rand(), true));
+	exec('mergecap -w /tmp/multicarve_results/'.$id.'_output.pcap'.$fileString);
+
+	//now that we have our results we delete the out.pcap files
+	for($i=0; $i < count($outFiles);$i++){
+		$file = $outFiles[$i];
+		unlink($file);
+	}
+
+	$handle = fopen('/tmp/multicarve_results/'.$id.'_output.pcap', "r");
+	return $handle	
+}
+
+//define command line arguments
+$shortopts  = "";			
+$shortopts .= "s:"; 		//Byteoffset on where to start carving
+$shortopts .= "e:";
+$shortopts .= "a:";
+$longopts  = array(
+    "sfile:",     		//file to start search at, required
+    "efile:",    		//file to end search at, required
+    "dir:",				//path to directory of pcap files
+    "pre:",				//prefix of files you are searching
+    "srcip:",			//source IP
+    "destip:",			//destination ip
+    "srcport:",			//source port
+    "destport:",		//destination port
+    "proto:",        	//protocol
+    "ip-version:",		//ip-version either 4 or 6
+);
+
+$options = getopt($shortopts, $longopts);
+
+//map options to variables
+
+if($options["a"]=="yes"){
+	$unixTime= explode(".",$options["sfile"]);
+	$date = date("Y-m-d", $unixTime[1]);
+	$dir=$options["dir"].$date."/";
+	$direc =$options["dir"].$date."/";
+  }
+else{
+	$dir = $options["dir"];
+	$direc = $options["dir"].$date."/";
+  }
+
+$start = $options["sfile"];
+$stop  = $options["efile"];
+$pre   = $options["pre"];
+
+//get files to search
+$files2search = carve($start,$stop,$dir,$pre);
+//$files2search = carve($options);
+//get sizes of the files you want to search
+$file_sizes = get_sizes($files2search,$dir,$pre);
+//construct and call cxt2pcap searches, return generated outfiles
+$outputfiles = cxt2pcap($files2search,$file_sizes,$options,$direc);
+//take generated outfiles and merge them into one pcap
+$fileHandle = mergeFiles($outputfiles);
+//return file handle to the file merged pcap file
+return $fileHandle;
+