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• binwalk
• objdump
• strings
• exiftool
• vim
• xxd
• stat
• file
• unzip
• curl
• wget

binwalk

The fastest way to check for embedded files and executable code

binwalk file.txt

objdump in kali tools

objdump

Can display some important information from a file like its assembler mnemonics for the machine instructions

objdump-D file.bin

man objdump

strings

It prints a sequence of printable caracteres from a file

strings-a file.txt

man strings

exiftool

Read and write meta information in files

exiftool file.txt

man exiftool

vim

A powerful text editor.

vim file.txt

You can use vim to combine commands to edit a file.

For example, you can format a SQL query usingsqlformat...

vim sqlFile.txt:%! sqlformat--reindent--keywords upper--identifiers lower

...or edit the hexcode of a file usingxxd

vim file.txt:%! xxd

vim range tips

xxd

Used to see or modify the hex dump from a file.

xxd file.txt

man xxd

stat

It displays information about the file

statfile.txt

man stat

file

Determine the file type

statfile.txt

man file

unzip

Commonly used to extract files from a zip file.

unzip file.zip

man unzip

curl

You can use it to transfer data from or to a server.

curl http://mysite.com-H"Authorization: Bearer token"

curl-X POST http://mysite.com-H"Authorization: Bearer token"-d"{ 'data': 'something' }"

curl-I HEAD http://mysite.com

man curl

wget

Download files from internet.

wget http://mysite.com/file

man wget

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