NAME¶

binwalk - manual page for binwalk 3.1.0

SYNOPSIS¶

binwalk [OPTIONS] [FILE_NAME]

Analyzes data for embedded file types

-L, --list: List supported signatures and extractors
-q, --quiet: Supress output to stdout
-v, --verbose: During recursive extraction display *all* results
-e, --extract: Automatically extract known file types
-M, --matryoshka: Recursively scan extracted files
-a, --search-all: Search for all signatures at all offsets
-E, --entropy: Plot the entropy of the specified file
-l, --log <LOG>: Log JSON results to a file
-t, --threads <THREADS>: Manually specify the number of threads to use
-x, --exclude <EXCLUDE>...: Do no scan for these signatures
-y, --include <INCLUDE>...: Only scan for these signatures
-C, --directory <DIRECTORY>: Extract files/folders to a custom directory [default: extractions]
-h, --help: Print help
-V, --version: Print version

July 2025

binwalk 3.1.0