Category
Archives File Signatures
Compression and archive formats like ZIP, 7z, RAR, tar, and gzip, and how to validate them by magic number.
21 formats in this category
.7z
7Z
Primary Hex
37 7A
.ace
ACE
Primary Hex
2A 2A 41 43 45 2A 2A
.arc
Internet Archive ARC (web archive)
Primary Hex
66 69 6C 65 64 65 73 63 3A 2F 2F
.arj
Compressed archive file
Primary Hex
60 EA
.bz
BZ
Primary Hex
42 5A 30
.bz2
bzip2compressed archive
Primary Hex
42 5A 68
.cab
Microsoft cabinet file
Primary Hex
4D 53 43 46
.cpio
CPIO
Primary Hex
30 37 30 37 30 37
.gz
GZIP archive file
Primary Hex
1F 8B
.lha
Compressed archive file
Primary Hex
2D 6C 68
.lz
LZ
Primary Hex
4C 5A 49 50
.lzh
Compressed archive file
Primary Hex
2D 6C 68 30 2D
.pax
PAX password protected bitmap
Primary Hex
50 41 58
.rar
Rar4
Primary Hex
52 61 72 21 1A 07 00
.sit
StuffIt compressed archive
Primary Hex
53 74 75 66 66 49 74
.tar
Tape Archive file
Primary Hex
75 73 74 61 72 00
.tgz
GZIP archive file
Primary Hex
1F 8B
.xz
XZ archive file
Primary Hex
FD 37 7A 58 5A 00
.z
Z
Primary Hex
1F 9D
.zip
PKSFX self-extracting executable compressed file
Primary Hex
50 4B 03 04
.zst
ZST
Primary Hex
28 B5 2F FD