Sample Archive Files for Download — ZIP, TAR, TAR.GZ, 7Z, GZ
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Each archive contains real files from the other categories — images, documents, audio, data — rather than padding, so extracting it gives you a mixed fixture set in one download. The ZIP page also covers the edge cases that trip up upload handlers: an empty archive, a nested ZIP-inside-a-ZIP, an archive with 100 entries, and one stored without compression.
Use them to test extraction services, zip-bomb and path-traversal protections, attachment scanners, and anything that accepts a compressed upload. Entry counts and compression methods are listed for every file.
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Sample ZIP files
ZIP archive
Sample TAR files
Tape archive (uncompressed)
Sample TAR.GZ files
Gzip-compressed tarball (.tar.gz / .tgz)
Sample TAR.BZ2 files
Bzip2-compressed tarball
Sample TAR.XZ files
XZ (LZMA2) compressed tarball
Sample 7Z files
7-Zip archive (LZMA2)
Sample GZ files
Gzip single-file compression
Frequently asked questions
Why is there no RAR file?
RAR is a proprietary format that can only be created with WinRAR's licensed tool, so we cannot generate one in an open, reproducible pipeline. 7Z gives you a comparable high-compression, multi-file archive for testing, and every major extractor handles it.
Are the archives safe to extract automatically?
Yes. Every entry lives under a single pine-birch-samples/ directory, there are no absolute paths, no ../ traversal entries, no symlinks and no executables. The nested ZIP contains two small ZIPs two levels deep — enough to test recursion limits without being a zip bomb.