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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], | + | * [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. |
* [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]] | * [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]] | ||
Revision as of 23:28, 19 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.
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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; 2006b. p. 140–7. [slides]
- 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]
