# bulk_extractor を Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, zypper でインストール

bulk_extractor のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:bulk_extractor
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install bulk_extractor
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install bulk_extractor
```

  証拠: MacPorts ports tree: security/bulk_extractor/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#bulk_extractor
```

  証拠: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bu/bulk_extractor/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install bulk_extractor
```

  証拠: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: bulk_extractor from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:bulk_extractor
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 2.1.1
- **ソース概要:** Stream-based forensics tool
- **ホームページ:** <https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/wiki>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor>
- **最終更新:** 2026-05-13T00:05:26Z
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- bulk_extractor (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 2.1.1
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

bulk_extractor is a stream-based digital-forensics tool that scans raw media, disk images, files, and directories for structured artifacts without first depending on filesystem parsing. It is historically important because it made bulk data analysis a fast triage step in forensic workflows.

### プロジェクトの歴史

bulk_extractor predates its current GitHub repository. The NEWS file includes 2010 release announcements for versions 0.4.2 through 0.7.0, with features such as context stop lists, compressed-data carving, crash protection, POSIX threading, ZIP/GZIP/PDF recovery, and hibernation-file extraction.

The `simsong/bulk_extractor` repository was created on 2012-04-03. The README describes the tool as a high-performance digital forensics exploitation tool that extracts email addresses, credit card numbers, JPEGs, JSON snippets, search terms, and other features, storing results in text files and histograms for inspection and downstream processing.

The README recommends citing Simson Garfinkel's 2013 Computers & Security paper, `Digital Media Triage with Bulk Data Analysis and bulk_extractor`, which formalized the technique and helped anchor the tool in academic and law-enforcement forensic practice.

### 採用の歴史

Adoption came from forensic triage needs: investigators could run bulk_extractor against disk images or memory artifacts and quickly get feature files, histograms, and leads without mounting or interpreting the filesystem first.

The project also included BEViewer for inspecting output, documented production downloads through GitHub releases, and kept packaging-friendly build instructions for Unix-like systems. Package managers such as Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, and openSUSE carry it because forensic analysts and security researchers often need repeatable installs on analysis workstations.

### 使われ方

Users point `bulk_extractor` at a disk image, file, directory, or other data source and review generated feature files and reports. It recursively examines decoded data, which lets it find artifacts in compressed, encoded, or carved content that simpler scanners miss.

The tool supports scanner selection, histograms, debugging environment variables, and VM-based build recipes. Modern 2.x development requires C++17 and uses submodules such as be13_api and DFXML.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

bulk_extractor is significant because it packages a research-grade forensic idea into a normal CLI: scan every byte, extract features, and produce plain text output. That combination makes it useful both in investigations and in scripted security pipelines.

For package nerds, it is also a classic example of a domain-specific tool with deep native-code build requirements, academic provenance, GUI adjuncts, and long-lived release history that still belongs in general-purpose package managers.

### タイムライン

- 2010: 0.4.x through 0.7.0 release announcements document early stop-list, carving, threading, and crash-protection work.
- 2012: Public `simsong/bulk_extractor` GitHub repository is created.
- 2013: Computers & Security publishes the bulk data analysis and bulk_extractor paper cited by the project.
- 2024: 2.1.1 release notes document ongoing 2.x maintenance.
- 2026: The repository remains active as the development tree for current bulk_extractor work.

### Related projects

- bulk_extractor is related to BEViewer, DFXML, be13_api, forensic carving tools, disk-image analysis workflows, memory and hibernation-file analysis, and downstream feature-file processing scripts.

### ソース

- <https://api.github.com/repos/simsong/bulk_extractor>
- <https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor#readme>
- <https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/blob/main/NEWS>
- <https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/wiki>


## セキュリティノート

bulk_extractor に一致するローカルシークレット処理マニフェストは見つかりませんでした。将来の対応で安定したパッケージ URL を使えるよう、Nucleus パッケージメタデータはここに公開されています。


## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- Nix - bulk_extractor: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bu/bulk_extractor/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper - bulk_extractor - 2.1.1-1.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: bulk_extractor from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Bulk Email and URL extraction tool | https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor/wiki/Introducing-bulk_extractor
- MacPorts - bulk_extractor: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: security/bulk_extractor/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/bulk_extractor.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/bulk_extractor.yml)


## ソース

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph