Something like Magika is potentially useful as a second pass if conventional methods of detecting a file type fail or yield a low-confidence result. But, for the majority of binary files, those conventional methods are perfectly adequate. If the first few bytes of a file are "GIF89a", you don't need an AI to tell you that it's probably a GIF image.
Something like Magika is potentially useful as a second pass if conventional methods of detecting a file type fail or yield a low-confidence result. But, for the majority of binary files, those conventional methods are perfectly adequate. If the first few bytes of a file are "GIF89a", you don't need an AI to tell you that it's probably a GIF image.