Friday, February 28, 2014

List of available file types with the corresponding value of the file_type variable:

People asked me several times, what are file types and how many file are available?
Actually i come across few, such exe and dll files. And other few like image files, video files,etc. So, i asked my friend once, he got the good knowledge in most of file type, since he is virus researcher, he told me "go to virus total, you will find how many", so i want to share those details here:


File typeValue of file_type
Win32 EXEexecutable windows win32 pe peexe
Win32 DLLexecutable windows win32 pe pedll
Windows Installerinstaller windows msi
Win16 EXEexecutable windows win16 ne neexe
Win16 DLLexecutable windows win16 ne nedll
DOS EXEexecutable dos mz
DOS COMexecutable dos com
COFFexecutable coff
ELFexecutable linux elf
Linux kernellinux
Linux RPM packagelinux rpm
Linuxlinux
Mach-Oexecutable mac macho
Java Bytecodeexecutable java-bytecode
Windows shortcutwindows lnk
HTMLinternet html
XMLinternet xml
Flashinternet flash
FLAmultimedia video fla
IE cookieinternet iecookie
BitTorrent linkinternet bittorrent
Emailinternet email
JPEGmultimedia image jpeg jpg
TIFFmultimedia image tiff
GIFmultimedia image gif
PNGmultimedia image png
BMPmultimedia image bmp
GIMPmultimedia image gimp
Adobe InDesignmultimedia image indesign
Adobe Photoshopmultimedia image photoshop psd
Targamultimedia image targa
XWSmultimedia image xwd
DIBmultimedia image dib
JNGmultimedia image jng
ICOmultimedia image ico
FlashPixmultimedia image fpx
EPSmultimedia image eps
SVGmultimedia image svg
Windows Enhanced Metafilemultimedia image emf
OGGmultimedia video ogg
FLCmultimedia animation flc
FLImultimedia animation fli
MP3multimedia audio mp3
FLACmultimedia audio flac
WAVmultimedia audio wav
MIDImultimedia audio midi
AVImultimedia video avi
MPEGmultimedia video mpeg
QuickTimemultimedia video quicktime qt
ASFmultimedia video asf
DivXmultimedia video divx
FLVmultimedia video flv
WMAmultimedia audio wma
WMVmultimedia video wmv
RealMediamultimedia video realmedia rm
MOVmultimedia video mov
MP4multimedia audio mp4
3GPmultimedia video 3gp
Network captureinternet cap
PDFdocument pdf
PostScriptdocument ps postscript
MS Word Documentdocument msoffice text word doc
Office Open XML Documentdocument msoffice text word docx
MS PowerPoint Presentationdocument msoffice presentation powerpoint ppt
Office Open XML Presentationdocument msoffice presentation powerpoint pptx
MS Excel Spreadsheetdocument msoffice spreadsheet excel xls
Office Open XML Spreadsheetdocument msoffice spreadsheet excel xlsx
Rich Text Formatdocument msoffice text word rtf
OpenOffice Presentationdocument openoffice presentation odp
OpenOffice Spreadsheetdocument openoffice spreadsheet ods
OpenOffice Documentdocument openoffice text odt
Hangul (Korean] Word Processor documentdocument hangul text hwp
Samsung documentdocument samsungdoc text gul
E-bookdocument ebook
LaTeXdocument latex
TrueType Fontfont truetype ttf
ISO imagecompressed isoimage
ZIPcompressed zip
GZIPcompressed gzip
BZIPcompressed bzip
RZIPcompressed rzip
DZIPcompressed dzip
7ZIPcompressed 7zip
CABcompressed cab
JARcompressed jar
RARcompressed rar
MS Compresscompressed mscompress
ACEcompressed ace
ARCcompressed arc
ARJcompressed arj
ASDcompressed asd
BlackHolecompressed blackhole
KGBcompressed kgb
Texttext
Scriptscript
PHPsource php
Pythonsource python
Perlsource perl
Rubysource ruby
Csource c
C++source cpp
Javasource java
Shell scriptscript shell
Pascalsource pascal
AWKsource awk
Dyalogsource dyalog
Fortransource fortran
Apple relatedapple apple-gen
Macintosh relatedapple macintosh mac macintosh-gen
AppleSingle Formatapple applesingle
AppleDouble Formatapple appledouble
Macintosh HFSapple macintosh mac machfs
Apple Plistapple appleplist
Macintosh Libraryapple mac maclib
Symbianexecutable mobile symbian
PalmOSexecutable mobile palmos
WinCEexecutable mobile wince
Androidexecutable mobile android
iPhoneexecutable mobile iphone
Source: Virustotal

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