Detecting ZLIB Compression

Published: 2019-08-04
Last Updated: 2019-08-04 20:07:05 UTC
by Didier Stevens (Version: 1)
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In diary entry "Recognizing ZLIB Compression", I mention my tool file-magic.py: it's mainly a wrapper for command file (libmagic).

By default, command file has no definitions to detect ZLIB detection, but my tool file-magic.py uses an additional file with custom definitions:

Take for example a ZLIB compressed stream in a PDF document:

As you can see, the stream starts with 0x78, an indication that this is ZLIB compression.

Piping this stream in my file-magic.py tool helps identifying the unfiltered stream content:

Of course, if you don't want to use this tool, you can just integrate these ZLIB definitions in your own definition files.

Didier Stevens
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Microsoft MVP
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Keywords: file zlib
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