DEPLOY

application/octet-stream

Safe

Magic Bytes

Offset: 10
23 20 54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 73 68 65 6C 6C 20 61 72 63 68 69 76 65

DEPLOY is a specialized shell archive (shar) format traditionally generated by various deployment utilities for Unix-like operating systems. It serves to package source code, binaries, and installation scripts into a single self-extracting text file for software distribution. As a legacy format that executes shell commands immediately upon extraction, users should manually inspect the plain text contents for malicious scripts before running the file in a terminal environment.

Extension

.deploy

MIME Type

application/octet-stream

Byte Offset

10

Risk Level

Safe

Validation Code

How to validate .deploy files in Python

Python
def is_deploy(file_path: str) -> bool:
    """
    Check if file is a valid DEPLOY by magic bytes.
    Signature offset: 10 bytes
    """
    signature = bytes([0x23, 0x20, 0x54, 0x68, 0x69, 0x73, 0x20, 0x69, 0x73, 0x20, 0x61, 0x20, 0x73, 0x68, 0x65, 0x6C, 0x6C, 0x20, 0x61, 0x72, 0x63, 0x68, 0x69, 0x76, 0x65])
    with open(file_path, "rb") as f:
        f.seek(10)
        return f.read(25) == signature

How to validate .deploy files in Node.js

Node.js
function isDEPLOY(buffer: Buffer): boolean {
  // Signature offset: 10 bytes
  const signature = Buffer.from([0x23, 0x20, 0x54, 0x68, 0x69, 0x73, 0x20, 0x69, 0x73, 0x20, 0x61, 0x20, 0x73, 0x68, 0x65, 0x6C, 0x6C, 0x20, 0x61, 0x72, 0x63, 0x68, 0x69, 0x76, 0x65]);
  if (buffer.length < 35) return false;
  return buffer.subarray(10, 35).equals(signature);
}
Go
func IsDEPLOY(data []byte) bool {
    // Signature offset: 10 bytes
    signature := []byte{0x23, 0x20, 0x54, 0x68, 0x69, 0x73, 0x20, 0x69, 0x73, 0x20, 0x61, 0x20, 0x73, 0x68, 0x65, 0x6C, 0x6C, 0x20, 0x61, 0x72, 0x63, 0x68, 0x69, 0x76, 0x65}
    if len(data) < 35 {
        return false
    }
    return bytes.Equal(data[10:35], signature)
}

API Endpoint

GET /api/v1/deploy
curl https://filesignature.org/api/v1/deploy

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