binwalk(1)
| BINWALK(1) | User Commands | BINWALK(1) |
NAME
binwalk - Firmware Analysis Tool
SYNOPSIS
binwalk [OPTIONS] [FILE_NAME]
DESCRIPTION
Analyzes data for embedded file types
Arguments:
- [FILE_NAME]
- Path to the file to analyze
OPTIONS
- -L, --list
- List supported signatures and extractors
- -q, --quiet
- Supress output to stdout
- -v, --verbose
- During recursive extraction display *all* results
- -e, --extract
- Automatically extract known file types
- -M, --matryoshka
- Recursively scan extracted files
- -a, --search-all
- Search for all signatures at all offsets
- -E, --entropy
- Plot the entropy of the specified file
- -l, --log <LOG>
- Log JSON results to a file
- -t, --threads <THREADS>
- Manually specify the number of threads to use
- -x, --exclude <EXCLUDE>...
- Do no scan for these signatures
- -y, --include <INCLUDE>...
- Only scan for these signatures
- -C, --directory <DIRECTORY>
- Extract files/folders to a custom directory [default: extractions]
- -h, --help
- Print help
- -V, --version
- Print version
| August 2025 | binwalk 3.1.0 |
