Zipstrings is a strings helper utility with archive file format support 📦.
Zipstrings can be very useful helper utility when analyzing extracted firmware images. It utilizes the strings util and adds support for several archive file formats, like zip, jar, xlsx, docx, apk or apex. This will enhance the ability to find relevant parts of a firmware during an analysis. Zipstrings can be pretty useful in a completely different context as well.
More information on why zipstrings was initially developed can be found here.
To find the printable strings of objects (including archives), or other binary or files in a directory, issue the following command:
$ ./zipstrings.py <dir>Note: It is recommended to save the zipstrings output in a file (e.g. to allow faster searches in the output):
$ ./zipstrings.py <dir> > <output filename>