Supported File Types

Below you can find the file types supported by each scanning engine that powers Antivirus for Amazon S3.

Antivirus for Amazon S3

Even if a file type is not on this list we will still attempt to scan the file byte for byte.

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Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)  
Graphic interchange format  
JPEG Interchange Format  
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format  
SafeGuard encrypted file (self-extracting)  
Windows executable  
Windows Prefetch file  
Windows Auxiliary File (.AUX)  
WinSxS FileMaps (.CDF-MS)  
Microsoft Content Index Format  
Windows Cursor  
Microsoft SKLM Resource File (.DAT)  
Windows Event Log (EVTX)  
Generic Printer Description (.GPD)  
Icon for 32-bit Windows  
Windows WBEM MAP File (.MAP)  
National Language Support File (.NLS)  
Precompiled INF File (.PNF)  
Windows NT Registry File (REGF)  
Software Quality Management File (SQM)  
Windows Thumbnail Cache (.DB)  
Windows regedit file (.reg)  
WILO file  
UTF-16/UCS-2 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format  
Device-independent bitmap (DIB) file  
Markup Language  
Hypertext Markup Language  
DAISY ebook ANSI/NISO Z39.86  
FictionBook (Fb2)  
Open Electronic Package  
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)  
Microsoft Office XML Containing Macros  
Microsoft Office XML Containing Embedded Objects  
Encoded Visual Basic Script  
Extensible Markup Language (XML)  
JavaServer Page  
Advanced Systems Format (ASF)  
Windows Animated Cursor  
Microsoft Audio Video Interleave (AVI) file  
Corel DRAW graphics file  
Waveform Audio Format (WAV)  
Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF)  
MPEG Video stream  
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) script  
Configuration Data File (generic)  
Data Log File (generic)  
Internet Shortcut (.URL)  
Windows HOSTS file  
Cascading Style Sheet  
Macromedia Shockwave Flash (SWF) file  
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)  
Macromedia Flash Video (FLV)  
Microsoft Word Containing Macros  
Microsoft Excel Containing Macros  
Android application package (APK) file  
JAR archive file  
Microsoft Office 2007 Encrypted Package (password protected)  
RealVideo / RealAudio  
Autodesk Inventor  
MicroStation V8 DGN File  
SolidWorks design file (2D and 3D models)  
Microsoft Word 95 to 2003 (password protected)  
Microsoft Excel 95 to 2003 (password protected)  
Microsoft PowerPoint 95 to 2003 (password protected)  
Microsoft Word 95 to 2003  
Microsoft Excel 95 to 2003  
Microsoft Outlook 97 to 2003  
Microsoft Windows Installer Package  
Microsoft PowerPoint 95 to 2003  
Microsoft Office Visio  
Microsoft Office Project  
Microsoft OLE2 file format  
Executable and Linkable Format (ELF)  
JPEG image file with Exif metadata  
Lossless JPEG (JPEG-LS)  
MPEG-1 System stream  
MPEG-2 System stream  
Office Suite - Open Office StarView metafile (SVM)  
Microsoft Excel 2007 onwards [encrypted]  
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 onwards [encrypted]  
Microsoft Word 2007 onwards [encrypted]  
Microsoft Excel 2007 onwards  
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 onwards  
Microsoft Word 2007 onwards  
Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS)  
Office Suite - Open Office Base (password protected)  
Office Suite - Open Office Calc (password protected)  
Office Suite - Open Office Draw (password protected)  
Office Suite - Open Office Impress (password protected)  
Office Suite - Open Office Math (password protected)  
Office Suite - Open Office Writer (password protected)  
Office Suite - Open Office Base  
Office Suite - Open Office Calc  
Office Suite - Open Office Draw  
Office Suite - Open Office Impress  
Office Suite - Open Office Math  
Office Suite - Open Office Writer  
Microsoft CAB archive  
InstallShield CAB archive  
RAR compressed archive (password protected)  
Open Packaging Convention file format (OPC) [encrypted]  
EPUB eBook  
Open Packaging Convention file format (OPC)  
RAR compressed archive  
Open Document Format for Office Applications [encrypted]  
Open Document Format for Office Applications  
PK ZIP archive [encrypted]  
PK ZIP archive  
Java class file  
GZIP compressed file  
Apple QuickTime (.MOV/QT)  
QuickTime video  
Symbian SIS file  
XZ compressed file  
Encoded certificate  
Certificate  
Microsoft Compiled HTML Help  
Exchangeable image file format  
Apple Mac executable  
Musical Instrument Digital Interface file  
Still Picture Interchange File Format (SPIFF)  
SafeGuard encrypted file  
SafeGuard PrivateDisk Container  
MPEG Audio Stream  
Basic audio/sound file format  
BinHex compressed archive (.HQX)  
MS-DOS executable  
3GP Video for mobile phones  
Apple iTunes AAC-LC Audio  
Sony / Mobile QuickTime (.MQV)  
Rich Text Format (RTF)  
TAR archive  
Tagged Image File Format  
UU-encoded  
ZOO Archive  
ACE archive [encrypted]  
Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) File  
ACE archive  
Application Compatibility Database  
AC-3 Digital Audio aka ATSC A/52  
Microsoft Access 2007  
Monkey's Audio format  
AppleDouble encoded  
AppleSingle encoded  
Windows Event Viewer Log  
HA compressed archive  
Windows Help File  
Interchange File Format (IFF)  
.JOB File Format  
Windows Shortcut file (.LNK)  
LZH compressed archive  
Microsoft Jet database V4  
Apple iTunes Video (.M4V) Video  
Microsoft MSFT Storage  
MacBinary archive format  
Program Information File (PIF)  
StuffIt compressed archive  
Microsoft Jet database V3  
Aldus Placeable Metafile  
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)  
Microsoft web archive - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension HTML (MHTML) format  
OGG multimedia container format  
PCX lossless image format  
PostScript  
Windows Enhanced Metafile  
DCX image file format  
Portable Bitmap image format  
Portable Pixelmap format  
Adobe Photoshop File Format  
yEnc encoding  
ARC, PAK Format  
ARJ/ARJ32 archiver  
Base64 encoded  
UNIX compressed archive  
Microsoft Agent Character file  
Windows Media metafile playlist  
Windows color matching control  
Advanced Video Coding  
Casio Digital Camera  
MP4 Base Media v1 / v2  
JPEG 2000 image  
Apple iTunes AAC-LC (.M4B) Audio Book  
Motion JPEG 2000  
Photo Player Multimedia Application Format (MAF)  
MPEG-4 (.MP4) for SonyPSP  
MPEG-4 for Nero  
OMA DCF (DRM Content Format)  
SD Memory Card Video  
Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format  
MPEG-4 audio-visual media  
Oracle IRM sealed file  
ID3 audio file data tagging format  
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) email message  
7z archive format  
Arc File Format  
BlackHole Archive Format File  
Chrome Extension CRX Package Format  
Adobe InDesign  
QuarkXpress project  
Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet  
MIME internet media  
email message (RFC822)  
Autodesk Design Web Format (DWF)  
Autodesk study file  
Microsoft Outlook Express mailbox file  
AutoCAD Drawing Database (DWG file)  
Adobe Framemaker  
Kremlin encrypted file  
Microsoft Outlook personal folder file  
Corel Wordperfect Document  
xBase Database File (DBF) [encrypted]  
xBase Database File (DBF)  
AutoCAD Slide  
AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format (DXF)  
GDS II stream format  
Lotus Notes database file  
ArchiCAD File  
Computational Fluid Dynamics DTF File  
Intergraph V7 DGN File  
Microsoft Excel 95 to 2003 (password protected)  
Microsoft Excel 95 to 2003  
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES)  
Pro/ENGINEER  
Adobe Reader ebook  
Broadband eBook (BBeB)  
DNL e-Book Format  
DjVu Document  
IMP ebook Format  
Microsoft ITOL/ITLS format  
MOBI ebook  
Palm Document File  
Plucker ebook  
Rocket eBook  
TEBR eBook  
TealDoc  
TomeRaider ebook  
eReader ebook  
APP data file  
CAL data file  
CHS data file  
FON data file  
OGL data file  
PFA data file  
Palm Database File  
01 data file  
VER data file  
CD-ROM disk image file  
F1-P1-T1-S1 data file  
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)  
WINDEV Hyper Database File (.FIC)  
GIP file  
CISO compressed ISO CD image  
CloneCD image control file  
PowerISO Direct-Access-Archive CD image file  
DAX compressed ISO CD image  
Apple HFS filesystem  
isoBuster IBP image file  
JSO compressed ISO CD image  
Alcohol CD-ROM image configuration file  
Apple disk image file  
Windows disk image  
WINDEV File  
Wise installer script  
bzip compressed archive  
PGP encrypted file (binary)  
xar compressed archive  
OpenPGP/GPG encrypted file  
AutoCAD file  
Interbase Database Backup file  
Interbase Database file  
BitTorrent torrent file  
Microsoft Word for Windows 1989-1995  
ACID encryption  
AxCrypt Encrypted File  
CryptoGram File encryption  
Compressed Microsoft Office File (.MSO)  
Apple Newton Package File  
Sysinternals Performance Monitor Log File  
ProjectLibre POD Project File  
Microsoft .QUERY File  
SecurityBox encrypted file  
Microsoft SQL Server Database File  
SQLite Database File  
Mac .DS_Store (Desktop Services Store) File  
Libpcap Packet capture (PCAP) file  
CATIA (Computer Aided Three dimensional Interactive Application) document  
Siemens JT Data Format  
Standard for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP)  
Stereo Lithography File (STL)  
Comma-separated values  
Data Log File (generic)  
Active server page  
JavaScript  
PHP Script  
Visual Basic Script  
Kernel Registry Services (KRS) system file for HP servers  
HP log file  
Matlab Script  
Obfuscated script (VBS/JavaScript)  
PGP encrypted message (ASCII-Armored)  
Language File (.LNG)  
UTF-32/UCS-4 32-bit Unicode Transformation Format  
UTF-16/UCS-2 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format  
Split File Shell Extension - split file archive  
OpenType Font File  
ASCII text / 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format  
Windows Codepage 1252  
Nero CD image file  
ISO 9660 CD-ROM image file  
Unspecified Markup Language  
TGA File Format  
ClamAV

Please refer to this link for the latest list.

Data Classification for Amazon S3

Our data classification functionality supports scanning and classification of most text-based files. This includes the following:

  • TXT

  • DOC/DOCX

  • PDF

  • HTML

  • CSV

  • XLS/XLSX

  • XML

  • RTF

  • ODT

  • PPT/PPTX

Even if a file type is not on this list you can still upload it and attempt to classify it to see if it's supported.

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