Indesign CS3 hexadecimal file signature?

I just experienced a hard drive crash and I'm now running a file recovery software to see if I can recover myIindesign files. The software (Ontrack EasyRecovery) doesn’t have Indesign listed within its file types. In order to add Indesign, it's requesting a hexadecimal file signature and its offset. Can you help me? Thanks.

Thanks for you help. The program needs a maximum of 8 bytes. This is the message of the Easy Recovery to add a new file signature:
"The following information is needed for custom file signatures. Enter the signature in a hexadecimal format whith a maximum of 8 bytes (i.e.: 1A 00 00 03 00 00 24 00). The signature offset should be zero relative and less than 523 bytes".

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