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| − | + | File Format Identification is the process of figuring out the format of a sequence of bytes. Operating systems typically do this by file extension or by embedded MIME information. Forensic applications need to identify file types by content. | |
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| + | ==libmagic== | ||
| + | * Written in C. | ||
| + | * Rules in /usr/share/file/magic and compiled at runtime. | ||
| + | * Powers the Unix “file” command, but you can also call the library directly from a C program. | ||
| + | * http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmagic | ||
| − | == | + | ==DROID== |
| + | * Writen in Java | ||
| + | * Developed by National Archives of the United Kingdom. | ||
| + | * http://droid.sourceforge.net | ||
| − | * [http:// | + | ==TrID== |
| − | * [http:// | + | * XML config file |
| + | * Closed source; free for non-commercial use | ||
| + | * http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html | ||
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| + | ==Stellent/Oracle Outside-In== | ||
| + | * Proprietary but free demo. | ||
| + | * http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/content-management/oit/oit_all.html | ||
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| + | =Bibliography= | ||
| + | Current research papers on the file format identification problem. Most of these papers concern themselves with identifying file format of a few file sectors, rather than an entire file. | ||
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| + | * Mason McDaniel, Automatic File Type Detection Algorithm, Masters Thesis, James Madison University,2001 | ||
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| + | * [http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/proceedings/hicss/2003/1874/09/187490332a.pdf Content Based File Type Detection Algorithms], Mason McDaniel and M. Hossain Heydari, 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 9, 2003. | ||
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| + | * [http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/ids/publications/FilePrintPaper-revised.pdf Fileprints: identifying file types by n-gram analysis], LiWei-Jen, Wang Ke, Stolfo SJ, Herzog B.., IProceeding of the 2005 IEEE workshop on information assurance; 2005 [http://www.itoc.usma.edu/workshop/2005/Papers/Follow%20ups/FilePrintPresentation-final.pdf [slides]] | ||
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| + | * [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10992/34632/01652088.pdf File type identification of data fragments by their binary structure. ], Karresand Martin, Shahmehri Nahid. Proceedings of the IEEE workshop on information assurance; 2006. p. 140–7. [http://www.itoc.usma.edu/workshop/2006/Program/Presentations/IAW2006-07-3.pdf [slides]] | ||
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| + | * FORSIGS; Forensic Signature Analysis of the Hard Drive for Multimedia File Fingerprints, John Haggerty and Mark Taylor, IFIP TC11 International Information Security Conference, 2006, Sandton, South Africa. | ||
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| + | * [https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/tools_and_resources/bibtex_archive/archive/2007-19.pdf Using Artificial Neural Networks for Forensic File Type Identification], Ryan M. Harris, Master's Thesis, Purdue University, May 2007 | ||
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| + | * [http://www.dfrws.org/2008/proceedings/p14-calhoun.pdf Predicting the Types of File Fragments], William Calhoun, Drue Coles, DFRWS 2008 [http://www.dfrws.org/2008/proceedings/p14-calhoun_pres.pdf [slides]] | ||
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| + | * [http://www.micsymposium.org/mics_2005/papers/paper7.pdf File Type Detection Technology], Douglas J. Hickok, Daine Richard Lesniak, Michael C. Rowe, 2005 Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium. | ||
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| + | * Karresand and Shahmehri, 2006 Martin Karresand and Nahid Shahmehri, Oscar – file type identification of binary data in disk clusters and RAM pages, IFIP security and privacy in dynamic environments vol. 201 (2006) p. 413–424. | ||
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Revision as of 19:54, 20 October 2008
File Format Identification is the process of figuring out the format of a sequence of bytes. Operating systems typically do this by file extension or by embedded MIME information. Forensic applications need to identify file types by content.
Contents |
Tools
libmagic
- Written in C.
- Rules in /usr/share/file/magic and compiled at runtime.
- Powers the Unix “file” command, but you can also call the library directly from a C program.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmagic
DROID
- Writen in Java
- Developed by National Archives of the United Kingdom.
- http://droid.sourceforge.net
TrID
- XML config file
- Closed source; free for non-commercial use
- http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html
Stellent/Oracle Outside-In
- Proprietary but free demo.
- http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/content-management/oit/oit_all.html
Bibliography
Current research papers on the file format identification problem. Most of these papers concern themselves with identifying file format of a few file sectors, rather than an entire file.
- Mason McDaniel, Automatic File Type Detection Algorithm, Masters Thesis, James Madison University,2001
- Content Based File Type Detection Algorithms, Mason McDaniel and M. Hossain Heydari, 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 9, 2003.
- Fileprints: identifying file types by n-gram analysis, LiWei-Jen, Wang Ke, Stolfo SJ, Herzog B.., IProceeding of the 2005 IEEE workshop on information assurance; 2005 [slides]
- File type identification of data fragments by their binary structure. , Karresand Martin, Shahmehri Nahid. Proceedings of the IEEE workshop on information assurance; 2006. p. 140–7. [slides]
- FORSIGS; Forensic Signature Analysis of the Hard Drive for Multimedia File Fingerprints, John Haggerty and Mark Taylor, IFIP TC11 International Information Security Conference, 2006, Sandton, South Africa.
- Using Artificial Neural Networks for Forensic File Type Identification, Ryan M. Harris, Master's Thesis, Purdue University, May 2007
- Predicting the Types of File Fragments, William Calhoun, Drue Coles, DFRWS 2008 [slides]
- File Type Detection Technology, Douglas J. Hickok, Daine Richard Lesniak, Michael C. Rowe, 2005 Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium.
- Karresand and Shahmehri, 2006 Martin Karresand and Nahid Shahmehri, Oscar – file type identification of binary data in disk clusters and RAM pages, IFIP security and privacy in dynamic environments vol. 201 (2006) p. 413–424.
