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File Magic Bytes Reference

Search frequently encountered file signatures and offsets.

ValueNameDescription
89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0APNGPortable Network Graphics.
FF D8 FFJPEGJPEG image.
47 49 46 38GIFGIF87a or GIF89a image.
52 49 46 46 … 57 45 42 50WebPRIFF container with WEBP identifier.
25 50 44 46 2DPDFPortable Document Format.
50 4B 03 04ZIP / OfficeZIP archive and ZIP-based Office formats.
1F 8BGzipGzip-compressed stream.
7F 45 4C 46ELFUnix executable and shared library.
4D 5AWindows EXEDOS MZ / Windows executable.
CA FE BA BEJava classCompiled Java class file.
00 61 73 6DWebAssemblyWebAssembly binary module.
49 44 33MP3 with ID3MP3 audio beginning with an ID3 tag.
4F 67 67 53OggOgg container stream.
66 74 79 70 (offset 4)MP4 / HEIFISO base media file family.

Source: freedesktop.org Shared MIME-info specificationReviewed: 2026-07-11

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