EDITING FILES
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Hello. Help me with my file. How to convert it to readable. I use your great program, but I lack skills. Thanks
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There are two possibilities as far as I can see:
- This is a text document, but in an encoding that Notepad++ does not recognize.
- This is not a text document at all, but a binary file. Maybe there is some program that can convert it into a human-readable format (probably JSON based on the file extension).
Nobody in this forum can tell you what the problem is based on the information you’ve provided. You will need to consult with someone who’s familiar with how this file was generated.
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Is it possible that your file is encrypted?
If so, you’ll have to determine how it was encrypted and decrypt it first, before Notepad++ or anything else can use it.
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@Coises
Hello. Tell me how to recognize the encryption method, is there any tip or suggestion. Thanks for the answer -
@Рома-Смирнов said in EDITING FILES:
@Coises
Hello. Tell me how to recognize the encryption method, is there any tip or suggestion. Thanks for the answerI’m sorry, but I have no idea.
If you don’t know yourself what software and what encryption key you would have used, you would likely have to ask that question in security forums or hacking/cracking forums to get a useful answer.
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@Рома-Смирнов said in EDITING FILES:
@Coises
Hello. Tell me how to recognize the encryption method, is there any tip or suggestion. Thanks for the answerNotepad++ does not have a way to recognize the encryption method and to decrypt them. You can’t use Notepad++ to deal with the file.
Try Google for
wallet.jsonto get an idea of what you are supposed to do with those files. -
@Рома-Смирнов Your file has a .json extension, but it’s been ‘packed’. Developers sometimes bundle static files such as JSON configurations inside an executable. This is often done by serializing and compressing the JSON into a binary blob embedded within the PE file. Tools like PyInstaller can package Python programs and their data files (including JSON) into a single executable.
If you open such an executable with a text editor like Notepad++ expecting to see JSON, you will instead see binary data because the JSON is packed inside the executable’s binary sections. This is not the JSON file itself but an executable containing the JSON data internally.
Modifying a JSON file embedded inside an executable is generally not straightforward or recommended. Executables are not designed to be edited like text files, and changing embedded data can cause the executable to break or crash.
There are libraries and tools to parse PE files and extract embedded resources or sections, which might allow you to extract or inspect the embedded JSON data.
Good Luck :)
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When I followed @mkupper’s suggestion of searching the internet for your filename, I was able to see that the name
wallet.jsonis often used for the storing secrets or backups for things like banking apps or for backing up your blockchain wallets – and that the latter often have encryption mechanisms built into their apps for encoding/decoding (because you really don’t want your blockchain secret key to be visible to anyone with a text editor), so it wouldn’t surprise me if the former kind of app did something similar. You should read the documentation for whatever app/blockchain you are using, to see how to read/decrypt those files. But in general, it’s doubtful that the intention is for them to ever be human-readable. (And, IMO, they should not be abusing the JSON file extension by claiming their files are JSON if they are, in fact, encrypted and not plain-text JSON; but this parenthetical is just my opinion.)And if you are trying to get us to help you decrypt someone else’s online wallet, please understand: doing so, or us helping you do so, is highly illegal in all jurisdictions I have ever heard of, and immoral no matter what jurisdiction you are in. If instructions were ever posted here on how to help someone break into an encrypted wallet, they would be deleted/purged immediately, and the person posting those instructions would be banned permanently from this Forum.
