Binwalk is a fast, easy to use tool for analyzing, reverse engineering, and extracting firmware images.

Binwalk follows the standard Unix configure/make installation procedure:

$ autoreconf
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

If you're running Python 2.x, you'll also want to install the Python lzma module:

$ sudo apt-get install python-lzma

For instructions on installing optional dependencies, see INSTALL.md.

For advanced installation options, see INSTALL.md.

Basic usage is simple:

$ binwalk firmware.bin

For additional examples and descriptions of advanced options, see the wiki.