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API Reference: SQLite Database Forensics

SQLite File Header (First 100 Bytes)

Offset Size Description
0 16 Magic: SQLite format 3\000
16 2 Page size (512-65536; 1 means 65536)
24 4 File change counter
28 4 Database size in pages
32 4 First freelist trunk page
36 4 Total freelist pages
52 4 Text encoding (1=UTF-8, 2=UTF-16le, 3=UTF-16be)

Page Types

Type Byte Description
0x02 Index interior (B-tree)
0x05 Table interior (B-tree)
0x0A Index leaf (B-tree)
0x0D Table leaf (B-tree)

Timestamp Decoders

Format Epoch Conversion
Unix 1970-01-01 datetime.utcfromtimestamp(val)
Chrome/WebKit 1601-01-01 (val / 1e6) - 11644473600 seconds since Unix epoch
Mac Absolute 2001-01-01 datetime(2001,1,1) + timedelta(seconds=val)
Mozilla PRTime 1970-01-01 val / 1e6 seconds since Unix epoch

Common Forensic Databases

Application File Key Tables
Chrome History urls, visits, downloads
Firefox places.sqlite moz_places, moz_historyvisits
WhatsApp msgstore.db messages, chat_list
iMessage sms.db message, handle, chat
Android SMS mmssms.db sms, threads

Python Libraries

Library Version Purpose
sqlite3 stdlib Query database tables
struct stdlib Parse binary header and page structures
os / pathlib stdlib File size and path operations

References