The supported archive formats are the following: Zip, 7z, JAR, RAR, RAR5, TAR, ISO, CAB, ARJ, LHA, LZH, RPM, DEB, LZMA, WIM, DMG, XAR, MSM, SFX, XZ, VDI, VHD, VMDK, RAW, CPIO, HFS, APK, GZ, MSI, TAZ, TGZ, TBZ, BZ2, VIB, AR, ALZ, TSE, TSEC, TSEZ, ACE, PST, OST, OFT, IPA, JMOD, MSIX, APPX, EGG, DLL, PGP, TBWX, SPF, XPI, VTAR, CRX, E01, ASICS, ASICE, GIT Bundle, RIBC, SMINE, MS OLE, ZSTD, TNEF, MBX, MHT, GPKG, B3DM, 3DML, NAR, Git Pack, NUPKG, SXC, SXD, SXF, SXI, SXM, SXW, STC, STD, STI, STW, HPWX, PBIT, PBIX, SHOW, SLDM, SLDX, VVSX, VSIX, PPAM, OVA, X12EDI
MetaDefender Core can also extract self-extracting archives created by both 7zip, WinRAR, PKZIP, IExpress.
Document files with archive format such as DOCX, XLSX...
Email/Calendar files (e.g., EML, MSG, ICS) are extracted to scan header, body, attachments.
Encrypted 7z, Zip, RAR, PDF, MS Word (DOC, DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, DOTM)/Excel (XLS, XLSX, XLSM, XLSB, XLTM)/Powerpoint (PPT, PPTX, PPTM, PPSM, POTX, POTM) can be decrypted by the archive module with a given password.
VHD extraction is applied to FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT32, GPT-style only.
VMDK extraction is applied to NTFS, HFS, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4.
RAW extraction is applied to NTFS, HFS only.
Supported split archive: ZIP (the first file only), TAR (the first file only), RAR (all parts), CAB (all parts).
For more information, please see the screenshot below:
