Unblob

Looks nice! Kind of reminds me of binwalk: https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk

Awesome tool/project. These blind (or "magic"; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures) extractors can be handy is a very wide range of applications. From…

Very cool - something I don't expect to need very often but likely critical when I do. I can't help but feel there was a missed opportunity to name it 'unpackman'

Yes, we developed a framework "unblob core" which can be extended easily [1] to any use-case. For example, a separate Python package could contain format specifications for…

There are multiple reasons: 1. it already supports more formats [1] than atool. 2. It's written in Python and easily extendable by anyone interested supporting their own formats.…

I am not seeing an option to pass a password to the archive extractors. Is the any?

No, not yet, however the problem came up several times. Feel free to create a GitHub issue if you would like this feature.

This looks awesome! Looking forward to trying it over binwalk! I'd be great if you could get it building on aarch64 and non-Linux system, I've tried adding the flake to my nix…

hyperscan is supported on Intel 64 bit only, but there is another project wchich supports ARM called vectorscan. My colleague wrote a Python wrapper for vectorscan:…

Adding a comparison, or at least the clear differentiators, to the documentation would be very helpful. As someone who uses `binwalk` extensively in a professional setting, with…

+1 on a comparison. Binwalk has served me faithfully for years but you never know what you don’t know until the day it fails

Can it rename the toplevel directory name before extracting? (My main problem with tar)

No, sorry for being unclear, I mean if the archive contains a toplevel folder e.g. binutils-1.0.0, that I can rename it to binutils before extracting (so I don't end up with the…

Why use this over aunpack? https://linux.die.net/man/1/aunpack

apack/aunpack from the atool suite for me [0]. Funny how many solutions exist for this problem. Though I think Unblob is aiming more for binwalk's niche [1]. [0]…

Thought it might help with media containers but I guess not. Can anyone recommend a good jpg png mp4 mkv parser lib in python?

Looks nice! Kind of reminds me of binwalk: https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk

The main difference is that binwalk goes through a file linearly, searching for patterns like magic bytes, and tries to extract everything it finds. The problems with this: -…

For years and years I've used `dtrx` ("do the right extraction") (https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx/). Maybe I should switch to unblob? It looks like unblob has the right behavior…

apack/aunpack from the atool suite for me [0]. Funny how many solutions exist for this problem. Though I think Unblob is aiming more for binwalk's niche [1]. [0]…

I've been using unp (https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/unp.1.html), which is just a wrapper around standard cli tools for unpacking things (tar, xz, unzip, etc). It…

If you’re looking for a general-purpose extractor for known, common archive formats, bsdtar is really nice these days; it’s libarchive-based and does way more than just tarballs…

Unblob looks cool! If you're interested in something similar that can put things back together after you've modified them, check out OFRAK:…