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Downloads:

399

Downloads of v 1.5.5.1:

15

Last Update:

23 Feb 2025

Published Date:

23 Feb 2025

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Simson Garfinkel

Tags:

bulk-extractor bulk_extractor forensics dfir

bulk_extractor

(Maintainer responded, waiting for review/Maintainer update)

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1.5.5.1 | Updated: 23 Feb 2025

Downloads:

399

Downloads of v 1.5.5.1:

15

Published:

23 Feb 2025

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Simson Garfinkel

bulk_extractor 1.5.5.1

(Maintainer responded, waiting for review/Maintainer update)

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Simson Garfinkel. The inclusion of Simson Garfinkel trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Simson Garfinkel goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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All Checks are Passing

3 Passing Tests


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Passed

Details

Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

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sustainablelobster (maintainer) on 23 Feb 2025 21:54:42 +00:00:

User 'sustainablelobster' (maintainer) submitted package.

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 23 Feb 2025 22:28:54 +00:00:

bulk-extractor has passed automated validation. It may have or may still fail other checks like testing (verification).
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chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 23 Feb 2025 22:48:08 +00:00:

bulk-extractor has failed automated package testing (verification).
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The package status will be changed and will be waiting on your next actions.

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sustainablelobster (maintainer) on 23 Feb 2025 23:29:26 +00:00:

User 'sustainablelobster' (maintainer) submitted package.

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 24 Feb 2025 00:05:29 +00:00:

bulk-extractor has passed automated validation. It may have or may still fail other checks like testing (verification).
NOTE: No required changes that the validator checks have been flagged! It is appreciated if you fix other items, but only Requirements will hold up a package version from approval. A human review could still turn up issues a computer may not easily find.

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chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 24 Feb 2025 04:27:13 +00:00:

bulk-extractor has failed automated package testing (verification).
Please visit https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/7d2b0cb2338ad0841d8dc7f41a4017b7 for details.
The package status will be changed and will be waiting on your next actions.

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sustainablelobster (maintainer) on 24 Feb 2025 23:53:27 +00:00:

Rerun verifier.
Verification Status Change - Verification tests have been set to rerun.

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 25 Feb 2025 01:02:57 +00:00:

bulk-extractor has passed automated package testing (verification). The next step in the process is package scanning.
Please visit https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/7bba12c87504afdf36f61fca2bf9c1ea for details.
This is an FYI only. There is no action you need to take.

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 25 Feb 2025 01:14:12 +00:00:

bulk-extractor has passed automated virus scanning.

Description

scans any kind of input (disk images, files, directories of files, etc)
and extracts structured information such as email addresses, credit card numbers,
JPEGs and JSON snippets without parsing the file
system or file system structures. The results are stored in text files that are easily
inspected, searched, or used as inputs for other forensic processing. bulk_extractor also creates
histograms of certain kinds of features that it finds, such as Google search terms and email addresses,
as previous research has shown that such histograms are especially useful in investigative and law enforcement applications.

Unlike other digital forensics tools, bulk_extractor probes every byte of data to see if it is the start of a
sequence that can be decompressed or otherwise decoded. If so, the
decoded data are recursively re-examined. As a result, bulk_extractor can find things like BASE64-encoded JPEGs and
compressed JSON objects that traditional carving tools miss.


tools\bulk_extractor-1.5.5-windowsinstaller.exe
md5: B2D070D26885374D9B9C7440D82CBB5C | sha1: 0BB0E9B5511FF39CB129A1D0D0331EAD5954B42E | sha256: A410898E3452940C4AAA45BDA6F32FE9447A61864266FF625C1916EE85764A39 | sha512: B990982CDBDA62D865B125CBA712F51ADAC54C669D4A5AF2ACB65319FFFEFE900147129F01F434EE9C477CF2290E35D6FE0C4FAE494C0C5084F126F0A06A88A9
tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'

$toolsDir   = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"
$fileLocation = (Get-ChildItem -Path $toolsDir -Filter 'bulk_extractor*.exe').FullName
$packageArgs = @{
  packageName   = $env:ChocolateyPackageName
  fileType      = 'exe'
  file          = $fileLocation
  softwareName  = 'Bulk Extractor*'
  silentArgs    = '/S'
  validExitCodes= @(0)
}

Install-ChocolateyInstallPackage @packageArgs
tools\chocolateyuninstall.ps1
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'

$packageArgs = @{
  packageName   = $env:ChocolateyPackageName
  softwareName  = 'Bulk Extractor*'
  fileType      = 'EXE'
  silentArgs   = '/S'
  validExitCodes= @(0)
}

[array]$key = Get-UninstallRegistryKey -SoftwareName $packageArgs['softwareName']

if ($key.Count -eq 1) {
  $key | % {
    $packageArgs['file'] = "$($_.UninstallString)"

    if ($packageArgs['fileType'] -eq 'MSI') {
      $packageArgs['silentArgs'] = "$($_.PSChildName) $($packageArgs['silentArgs'])"
      $packageArgs['file'] = ''
    } else {
      # pass
    }

    Uninstall-ChocolateyPackage @packageArgs
  }
} elseif ($key.Count -eq 0) {
  Write-Warning "$packageName has already been uninstalled by other means."
} elseif ($key.Count -gt 1) {
  Write-Warning "$($key.Count) matches found!"
  Write-Warning "To prevent accidental data loss, no programs will be uninstalled."
  Write-Warning "Please alert package maintainer the following keys were matched:"
  $key | % {Write-Warning "- $($_.DisplayName)"}
}

do {
  Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 100
  $UninstallWindowTitle = (Get-Process | Where-Object -Property 'MainWindowTitle' -Match 'Bulk Extractor.*Uninstall').MainWindowTitle
} while (-not $UninstallWindowTitle)

$WShell = New-Object -ComObject 'wscript.shell'
$WShell.AppActivate($UninstallWindowTitle)
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 100
$WShell.SendKeys('~')
tools\LICENSE.txt
From: https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/blob/main/LICENSE.md

LICENSE

## Copyright/Non-Copyright Statements

**bulk_extractor** was originally developed by Simson Garfinkel while at
the Naval Postgraduate School. As a work of the US Government that
work is not subject to copyright law.

Simson Garfinkel left the Naval Postgraduate School in January 2015
and continued to work on **bulk_extractor** in his personal
capacity. Those modifications are covered under the MIT license (below). Other
components are licensed as noted.

## MIT License

Copyright (C) 2020, Simson L. Garfinkel

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE
OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

## CC0 Original Summary

Except as otherwise noted, bulk_extractor source code files are public domain
software.

That software provided here is released by the Naval Postgraduate
School, an agency of the U.S. Department of Navy.  The software bears
no warranty, either expressed or implied. NPS does not assume legal
liability nor responsibility for a User's use of the software or the
results of such use.

Please note that within the United States, copyright protection, under
Section 105 of the United States Code, Title 17, is not available for
any work of the United States Government and/or for any works created
by United States Government employees.

However, because some bulk_extractor source modules (e.g. pyxpress.c)
are covered under the GNU Public License, the compiled bulk_extractor
executable is covered under the GPL copyright. This means that binary
distributions of bulk_extractor must include the full source code (or
have the source code be made easily available.)

## Other materials

bulk_extractor provides other materials with different licenses than the
ones mentioned previously. Copies of the licenses mentioned below can be
found under the licenses/ directory.

Licensed under the Common Public License 1.0

* src/tsk3 includes SleuthKit 3 include files that are party of
SleuthKit 3. These files are  Copyright (C) 2010 Brian Carrier


Licensed under the MIT License

* src/base64_forensic.cpp is Copyright (C) 1996-1999 by Internet Software Consortium, with
 portions Copyright (C) 1995 by International Business Machines, Inc.

* src/be13_api/utf8.h is Copyright 2006 Nemanja Trifunovic

* src/old_scanners/scan_ascii85.cpp is Copyright (C) 2011 Remy Oukaour

* src/scan_json.cpp is Copyright (C) 2021 Simson L. Garfinkel and Jan Gruber


Licensed under General Public License version 3 and later

* src/pyxpress.c is Copyright 2008 (C) Matthieu Suiche. <msuiche[at]gmail.com>


Licensed under Lesser General Public License version 2.1

* src/scan_elf.cpp


Licensed under Lesser General Public License version 3 and later

* src/dfxml is Copyright 2012 (C) Simson L. Garfinkel

* src/scan_outlook.h is Copyright (C) 2008-2014, Joachim Metz <[email protected]>


Licensed under General Public License version 3 with the Autoconf exception:

* m4/ac_prog_java.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>

* m4/ac_prog_java_works.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>

* m4/ac_check_rqrd_class.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>

* m4/ax_pthread.m4 is Copyright (C) 2008 Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]>,
 2011 Daniel Richard G. <[email protected]>

* m4/ac_prog_java_cc.m4 is Copyright (C) 2002 Nic Ferrier <[email protected]>

* m4/ac_prog_javac.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>

* m4/ac_prog_javac_works.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>

* m4/ac_check_classpath.m4 is Copyright (C) 2000 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>

Because parts the GPL (including version 3) is incompatible with some terms of the OpenSSL license, the author hereby explicitly states a license exception, which permits the linking of bulk_extractor with OpenSSL.
tools\VERIFICATION.txt
VERIFICATION
Verification is intended to assist the Chocolatey moderators and community
in verifying that this package's contents are trustworthy.

Browse to the following page:
    URL: https://downloads.digitalcorpora.org/downloads/bulk_extractor/

Compare the published SHA256 of bulk_extractor-1.5.5-windowsinstaller.exe to
the SHA256 of the included installer:
    SHA256: A410898E3452940C4AAA45BDA6F32FE9447A61864266FF625C1916EE85764A39

Log in or click on link to see number of positives.

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

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