compression - Is there a tool to extract a file from a ZIP archive when that file is not present in central directory but has its own LFH?

Question

I'm looking for a tool that can extract files by searching aggressively through a ZIP archive. The compressed files are preceded with LFHs but no CDHs are present. Unzip outputs an empty folder. I found one called 'binwalk' but even though it finds the hidden files inside ZIP archives it seems not to know how to extract them. Thank You in advance.

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Answer 1

You can try sunzip. It reads the zip file as a stream, and will extract files as it encounters the local headers and compressed data.

Use the -r option to retain the files decompressed in the event of an error. You will be left with a temporary directory starting with _z containing the extracted files, but with temporary, random names.