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I ran:
$> binwalk --dd='jpeg:jpg' file.bin
The JPGs (there are hundreds of them) are extracted but all of the JPGs experience varying levels of "corruption". Here's an example of what most of the images look like.
The file is about 8 years old and has been stored on probably 3 different drives since then. I can't imagine that bit rot would have gotten to it, but could that be a possibility? Is there anything else I can try?
Thanks.
Edit: FileJuicer worked perfectly!
Binwalk does carving, it doesn't care if embeedded file maybe cut into pieces, and its the parts are not stored in the container file continuously. It just finds JFIF header and tries to guess the size, and saves data starting from the point it found the header at. You may try to carve using photorec, but most probably it won't help either.
