ImHex Database

This repository serves as a database for files to use with the ImHex Hex Editor. It currently contains

• Patterns - Binary Format definitions for the Pattern Language
• Pattern Libraries - Libraries that make using the Pattern Language easier
• Magic Files - Custom magic file definitions for the use with libmagic
• Encodings - Custom encodings in the .tbl format
• Data Processor Nodes - Custom nodes made for ImHex's Data Processor
• Themes - Custom themes for ImHex
• Constants - Constants definition files
• Scripts - Various scripts to generate code or automate some tasks
• Yara - Custom Yara rules

Submissions

Most files in this repository have been submitted by the community. Please feel free to open a PR on your own and add files to it! Everything will immediately show up in ImHex's Content Store and gets bundled with the next release of ImHex.

Table of Contents

Hex Patterns

Name	MIME	Path	Description
3DS		patterns/3ds.hexpat	Autodesk 3DS Max Model file
7Z		patterns/7z.hexpat	7z File Format
AFE2		patterns/afe2.hexpat	Nintendo Switch Atmosphère CFW Fatal Error log
ANI	application/x-navi-animation	patterns/ani.hexpat	Windows Animated Cursor file
AR	application/x-archive	patterns/ar.hexpat	Static library archive files
ARIA2		patterns/aria2.hexpat	ARIA2 Download Manager Control files
ARM VTOR		patterns/arm_cm_vtor.hexpat	ARM Cortex M Vector Table Layout
Bastion		patterns/bastion/*	Various Bastion files
Bencode	application/x-bittorrent	patterns/bencode.hexpat	Bencode encoding, used by Torrent files
BMP	image/bmp	patterns/bmp.hexpat	OS2/Windows Bitmap files
BIN		patterns/selinux.hexpat	SE Linux modules
BSON	application/bson	patterns/bson.hexpat	BSON (Binary JSON) format
bplist		patterns/bplist.hexpat	Apple's binary property list format (bplist)
BSP		patterns/bsp_goldsrc.hexpat	GoldSrc engine maps format (used in Half-Life 1)
CCHVA		patterns/cchva.hexpat	Command and Conquer Voxel Animation
CCVXL		patterns/ccvxl.hexpat	Command and Conquer Voxel Model
CCPAL		patterns/ccpal.hexpat	Command and Conquer Voxel Palette
CDA		patterns/cda.hexpat	Compact Disc Audio track
CHM		patterns/chm.hexpat	Windows HtmlHelp Data (ITSF / CHM)
COFF	application/x-coff	patterns/coff.hexpat	Common Object File Format (COFF) executable
CPIO	application/x-cpio	patterns/cpio.hexpat	Old Binary CPIO Format
CrashLvl		patterns/Crashlvl.hexpat	Crash Bandicoot - Back in Time (fan game) User created level format
DDS	image/vnd-ms.dds	patterns/dds.hexpat	DirectDraw Surface
DEX		patterns/dex.hexpat	Dalvik EXecutable Format
DMG		patterns/dmg.hexpat	Apple Disk Image Trailer (DMG)
DS_Store		patterns/dsstore.hexpat	.DS_Store file format
DTA		patterns/max_v104.hexpat	Mechanized Assault and Exploration v1.04 (strategy game) save file format
DTED		patterns/dted.hexpat	Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED)
ELF	application/x-executable	patterns/elf.hexpat	ELF header in elf binaries
EVTX		patterns/evtx.hexpat	MS Windows Vista Event Log
FAS		patterns/fas_oskasoftware.hexpat patterns/fas_oskasoftware_old.hexpat (Old versions of Oska DeskMate)	Oska Software DeskMates FAS (Frames and Sequences) file
FDT		patterns/fdt.hexpat	Flat Linux Device Tree blob
FFX		patterns/ffx/*	Various Final Fantasy X files
File System		patterns/fs.hexpat	Drive File System
FLAC	audio/flac	patterns/flac.hexpat	Free Lossless Audio Codec, FLAC Audio Format
GB	application/x-gameboy-rom	patterns/gb.hexpat	Gameboy ROM
GGUF		patterns/gguf.hexpat	GGML Inference Models
GIF	image/gif	patterns/gif.hexpat	GIF image files
GZIP	application/gzip	patterns/gzip.hexpat	GZip compressed data format
Halo Tag		patterns/hinf_tag.hexpat	Halo Infinite Tag Files
Halo Module		patterns/hinf_module.hexpat	Halo Infinite Module Archive Files
Halo HavokScript		patterns/hinf_luas.hexpat	Halo Infinite HavokScript 5.1 Bytecode
ICO		patterns/ico.hexpat	Icon (.ico) or Cursor (.cur) files
ID3	audio/mpeg	patterns/id3.hexpat	ID3 tags in MP3 files
Intel HEX		patterns/intel_hex.hexpat	Intel hexadecimal object file format definition
IP		patterns/ip.hexpat	Ethernet II Frames (IP Packets)
IPS		patterns/ips.hexpat	IPS (International Patching System) files
ISO		patterns/iso.hexpat	ISO 9660 file system
Java Class	application/x-java-applet	patterns/java_class.hexpat	Java Class files
JPEG	image/jpeg	patterns/jpeg.hexpat	JPEG Image Format
Lua 5.4		patterns/lua54.hexpat	Lua 5.4 bytecode
LCE Savefile		patterns/lcesave.hexpat	Minecraft Legacy Console Edition save file
Mach-O	application/x-mach-binary	patterns/macho.hexpat	Mach-O executable
MIDI	audio/midi	patterns/midi.hexpat	MIDI header, event fields provided
MiniDump	application/x-dmp	patterns/minidump.hexpat	Windows MiniDump files
mp4	video/mp4	patterns/mp4.hexpat	MPEG-4 Part 14 digital multimedia container format
msgpack	application/x-msgpack	patterns/msgpack.hexpat	MessagePack binary serialization format
NACP		patterns/nacp.hexpat	Nintendo Switch NACP files
NBT		patterns/nbt.hexpat	Minecraft NBT format
NE		patterns/ne.hexpat	NE header and Standard NE fields
nes		patterns/nes.hexpat	.nes file format
NotepadWindowState		patterns/notepad-windowstate.hexpat	Windows 11 Notepad - Window State .bin file
NRO		patterns/nro.hexpat	Nintendo Switch NRO files
NTAG		patterns/ntag.hexpat	NTAG213/NTAG215/NTAG216, NFC Forum Type 2 Tag compliant IC
OGG	audio/ogg	patterns/ogg.hexpat	OGG Audio format
PAK		patterns/xgspak.hexpat	Exient XGS Engine Pak files
PCAP	application/vnd.tcpdump.pcap	patterns/pcap.hexpat	pcap header and packets
PCX	application/x-pcx	patterns/pcx.hexpat	PCX Image format
PE	application/x-dosexec application/x-msdownload	patterns/pe.hexpat	PE header, COFF header, Standard COFF fields and Windows Specific fields
PP		patterns/selinuxpp.hexpat	SE Linux package
PFS0		patterns/pfs0.hexpat	Nintendo Switch PFS0 archive (NSP files)
PIF	image/pif	patterns/pif.hexpat	PIF Image Format
PKM		patterns/pkm.hexpat	PKM texture format
PNG	image/png	patterns/png.hexpat	PNG image files
PRODINFO		patterns/prodinfo.hexpat	Nintendo Switch PRODINFO
Protobuf		patterns/protobuf.hexpat	Google Protobuf encoding
psafe3		patterns/psafe3.hexpat	Password Safe V3
PyInstaller		patterns/pyinstaller.hexpat	PyInstaller binray files
PYC		patterns/pyc.hexpat	Python bytecode files
QBCL		patterns/qbcl.hexpat	Qubicle voxel scene project file
QOI	image/qoi	patterns/qoi.hexpat	QOI image files
RAS	image/x-sun-raster	patterns/ras.hexpat	RAS image files
ReFS		patterns/refs.hexpat	Microsoft Resilient File System
Shell Link	application/x-ms-shortcut	patterns/lnk.hexpat	Windows Shell Link file format
shp		patterns/shp.hexpat	ESRI shape file
shx		patterns/shx.hexpat	ESRI index file
SPIRV		patterns/spirv.hexpat	SPIR-V header and instructions
STL	model/stl	patterns/stl.hexpat	STL 3D Model format
StuffItV5	application/x-stuffit	patterns/sit5.hexpat	StuffIt V5 archive
SWF		patterns/swf.hexpat	Shockwave Flash file format
TAR	application/x-tar	patterns/tar.hexpat	Tar file format
TIFF	image/tiff	patterns/tiff.hexpat	Tag Image File Format
TGA	image/tga	patterns/tga.hexpat	Truevision TGA/TARGA image
TTF	font/ttf, font/otf	patterns/ttf.hexpat	TrueType and OpenType font format
Ubiquiti		patterns/ubiquiti.hexpat	Ubiquiti Firmware (update) image
UEFI		patterns/uefi.hexpat`	UEFI structs for parsing efivars
UF2		patterns/uf2.hexpat	USB Flashing Format
VBMeta		patterns/vbmeta.hexpat	Android VBMeta image
VDF		patterns/vdf.hexpat	Binary Value Data Format (.vdf) files
VHDX		patterns/vhdx.hexpat	Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk format
WAV	audio/x-wav	patterns/wav.hexpat	RIFF header, WAVE header, PCM header
WAS		patterns\was_oskasoftware.hexpat	Oska Software DeskMates WAS/WA3 (WAVE/MP3 Set) file
WAD		patterns/wad.hexpat	DOOM WAD Archive
XBEH	audio/x-xbox-executable	patterns/xbeh.hexpat	Xbox executable
XCI		patterns/xci.hexpat	Nintendo Switch XCI cartridge ROM
XGT		patterns/xgt.hexpat	Exient XGS Engine Texture
Xilinx BIT		patterns/xilinx_bit.hexpat	Xilinx FPGA Bitstreams
Xilinx Bootgen		patterns/xilinx_bootgen.hexpat	Xilinx ZynqMP Boot Images
ZIP	application/zip	patterns/zip.hexpat	End of Central Directory Header, Central Directory File Headers
ZLIB	application/zlib	patterns/zlib.hexpat	ZLIB compressed data format
ZSTD	application/zstd	patterns/zstd.hexpat	Zstandard compressed data format

Scripts

Name	Path	Description
svd2pat	scripts/svd2pat.py	Converts a ARM .svd register MMIO definition file into a pattern
csv2tbl	scripts/csv2tbl.py	Converts a 010 editor CSV encoding file into a table file

Pattern Libraries

Name	Path	Description
libhex	includes/hex/*	Functions to interact with ImHex
libstd	includes/std/*	Pattern Language Standard Library
libtype	includes/type/*	Various custom types with special formatters

Yara rules

Name	Path	Description
Official Rules	yara/official_rules/*	Official Yara rules repository

Magic files

Name	Path	Description
Nintendo Switch	magic/nintendo_switch_magic	Identifies common file types used on the Nintendo Switch
Portable Executable	magic/portable_executable_magic	Identifies PE files used on Windows

Constants files

Name	Path	Description
CRC-16	constants/crc16.json	Constants associated with CRC-16 operations
CRC-32	constants/crc32.json	Constants associated with CRC-32 operations
HTTP-Codes	constants/http_status.json	HTTP Status code values
Linux Error Codes	constants/linux_errors.json	Values of Linux error results

Encoding files

Name	Path	Description
Arabic ISO	encodings/arabic_iso.tbl	Arabic ISO encoding
Arabic Windows	encodings/arabic_windows.tbl	Arabic Windows encoding
ASCII	encodings/ascii.tbl	Regular ASCII encoding
ASCII+ANSI	encodings/ascii_ansi.tbl	Extended ASCII encoding
ASCII+OEM	encodings/ascii_oem.tbl	ASCII encoding with Windows OEM characters
Baltic ISO	encodings/baltic_iso.tbl	Baltic ISO encoding
Baltic Windows	encodings/baltic_windows.tbl	Baltic Windows encoding
Big5 (Traditional Chinese)	encodings/big5.tbl	Big5 encoding for Traditional Chinese
Cyrillic ISO	encodings/cyrillic_iso.tbl	Cyrillic ISO encoding
Cyrillic Windows	encodings/cyrillic_windows.tbl	Cyrillic Windows encoding
Cyrillic KOI8-R	encodings/cyrillic_koi8_r.tbl	Cyrillic KOI8-R encoding (Russian Characters)
Cyrillic KOI8-U	encodings/cyrillic_koi8_u.tbl	Cyrillic KOI8-U encoding (Ukranian Characters)
Eastern Europe ISO	encodings/eastern_europe_iso.tbl	Eastern Europe ISO encoding
Eastern Europe Windows	encodings/eastern_europe_windows.tbl	Eastern Europe Windows encoding
EBCDIC	encodings/ebcdic.tbl	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code, developed by IBM for their Main Frames
EUC-JP	encodings/euc_jp.tbl	EUC-JP encoding with NEC special and IBM extended characters
EUC-KR	encodings/euc_kr.tbl	EUC-KR encoding
Greek ISO	encodings/greek_iso.tbl	Greek ISO encoding
Greek Windows	encodings/greek_windows.tbl	Greek Windows encoding
Hebrew ISO	encodings/hebrew_iso.tbl	Hebrew ISO encoding
Hebrew Windows	encodings/hebrew_windows.tbl	Hebrew Windows encoding
ISO/IEC 646	encodings/iso_646.tbl	ISO/IEC 646 encoding, an older version of ASCII
ISO/IEC 6937	encodings/iso_6937.tbl	ISO/IEC 6937 encoding, an extension of ASCII containing additional character
JIS 0201	encodings/jis_x_0201.tbl	JIS X 0201 encoding in UTF-8
JIS X 0211	encodings/jis_x_0211.tbl	JIS X 0211 encoding in UTF-8
JIS 0213	encodings/jis_x_0213.tbl	JIS X 0213 encoding in UTF-8
Macintosh	encodings/macintosh.tbl	Macintosh character encoding used by the Kermit protocol
Pokémon (English, Generation 1)	encodings/pokegen1_en.tbl	Character encoding used by the English generation 1 Pokémon games
Pokémon (English, Generation 3)	encodings/pokegen3_en.tbl	Character encoding used by the English generation 3 Pokémon games
Shift-JIS UTF-8	encodings/shiftjis.tbl	Shift-JIS encoding in UTF-8
Thai	encodings/thai.tbl	Thai character encoding
Turkish ISO	encodings/turkish_iso.tbl	Turkish ISO encoding
Turkish Windows	encodings/turkish_windows.tbl	Turkish Windows encoding
UTF-8	encodings/utf8.tbl	UTF-8 encoding
Vietnamese	encodings/vietnamese.tbl	Vietnamese character encoding

import custom encoding from File -> Import... -> Custome Encoding File

Data Processor Nodes

Name	Path	Description
Caesar Cipher	nodes/caesar.hexnode	Simple adjustable per-byte Caecar Cipher (ROT)
XOR Cipher	nodes/xor.hexnode	XORs a input with a repeating XOR pad

Themes

Name	Path	Description
Visual Studio Dark	themes/vs_dark.json	Theme similar to Visual Studio's Dark theme
Solarized Dark	themes/solarized_dark.json	Solarized Dark Theme
Catppuccin Latte	themes/catppuccin-latte.json	Catppuccin Latte Flavor (Light Theme)
Catppuccin Frappe	themes/catppuccin-frappe.json	Catppuccin Frappe Flavor (Dark Theme)
Catppuccin Macchiato	themes/catppuccin-macchiato.json	Catppuccin Macchiato Flavor (Dark Theme)
Catppuccin Mocha	themes/catppuccin-mocha.json	Catppuccin Mocha Flavor (Dark Theme)