[Code-Crunchers] identifying images in a binary (fwd)

Fri Nov 24 05:45:52 CST 2006

Interesting, how would you go about identifying images in binaries?

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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:34:16 -0800
From: Caleb Katz <c2.katz at gmail.com>
To: pen-test at securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: identifying images in a binary
Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:48:06 -0700 (MST)
Resent-From: pen-test-return-1078483036 at securityfocus.com

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:29:19 -0600
offset <offset at ubersecurity.org> wrote:

> I'm currently looking at a usb fingerprint reader and I'm needing some tools for identifying media (images) from a binary stream.
> 
> I'd like to run a tool against a usb dump and identify any fingerprint images (ie. pgm format, etc)

You might take a look at PhotoRec. It was designed to recover files
by scanning the data of a disk and supports several image formats:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Caleb

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