I have a 7z archive that i downloaded from practicalsecurityanalytics.com that contains malware files and benign files of 117GB. The compressed size of this file is 43.8GB which is large and i do not want to extract the whole archive at once.
Is there a way so that i can specifically extract a few selected files The selected files are not sequential so that i can't really rely on GUI and select individual files.
| File details | metric |
|---|---|
| Samples | 201,549 |
| Legitimate | 86,812 |
| Malicious | 114,737 |
| Compressed Size | 43.8GB |
| Uncompressed Size | 117GB |
There is a csv file called samples.csv that shows which file is malware and which is not and the entropy of the file
The file is encrypted so it asks for a password every time I want to extract something.
I am working in linux.
A quick way I extracted the specific files is first add all the file names into a text file like this
228161
213960
200290
210832
230546
257545
....
and wrap the file names around like this by using any method (i used a python script to quickly do it) and save it a file - here f1.txt
pe-machine-learning-dataset/samples/228161
pe-machine-learning-dataset/samples/213960
pe-machine-learning-dataset/samples/200290
pe-machine-learning-dataset/samples/210832
pe-machine-learning-dataset/samples/230546
pe-machine-learning-dataset/samples/257545
....
and now executing
7z e foo.7z -o"path to save the files" $(cat f1.txt)