Profile.dat - Bit.ly

| Platform | Path | |----------|------| | Windows (legacy) | %APPDATA%\bit.ly\profile.dat | | macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/bit.ly/profile.dat | | Linux | ~/.bit.ly/profile.dat |

Hex dumps of recovered samples show no universal magic header. Instead, three formats have been observed: bit.ly profile.dat

| Format | Magic/Start | Identification | |--------|--------------|----------------| | JSON (plain) | { | UTF-8 encoded JSON | | Pickle (Python) | \x80\x03 (PROTOCOL 3) | Python pickle.dumps() | | Java serialized | \xAC\xED | Java ObjectOutputStream | | Platform | Path | |----------|------| | Windows

Thus, profile.dat is format-agnostic.

Because Bitly accounts often connect to Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, a stolen session can lead to: a stolen session can lead to: