[ale] detecting Adobe Flash content in static image files

[Tim Watts]

On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 13:12 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Which makes it really really difficult to script something like:
> 
>   find /var/www/images/ -type f -exec file {} \; | egrep -v
> "(GIF|JPEG|PNG) image data"
> 
Perhaps it's too optimistic, but could you use file --mime-type and grep
for something like "(flash|flv)" or are there other impostors you're
looking for as well?

On my ubuntu 9.10 system file seems to correctly identify gif and jpg.
I'm not sure how file orders it's tests -- could make a difference. Or
maybe it's your magic file. Are you doing this on cygwin? And intel arch
(i.e. byte ordering could be tripping it up)? If you want I can send you
my magic files off-list.


> -Jim P.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:53, Matt Rideout <mrideout at windserve.com> wrote:
> > Pipe find's output through the file command.
> >
> > Jim Popovitch wrote, On 12/06/2009 12:05 PM:
> >> Googling for this is impossible....
> >>
> >> I would like to scan a server looking for jpg/gif/png files that
> >> actually contain flash (swf) content.  Ideas?
> >>
> >> -Jim P.
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