Binwalk recursively extracting files without respecting tree structure to the extracted folder

Binwalk is recursively extracting all the files inside the subfolders to the _firmware-name.extracted/folder instead of respecting the directory structure and then placing the files inside squashfs-root.

Output below :

root@kali:# binwalk -e Dlink_firmware.bin 

DECIMAL       HEXADECIMAL     DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
48            0x30            Unix path: /dev/mtdblock/2
96            0x60            uImage header, header size: 64 bytes, header CRC: 0x7FE9E826, created: 2010-11-23 11:58:41, image size: 878029 bytes, Data Address: 0x80000000, Entry Point: 0x802B5000, data CRC: 0x7C3CAE85, OS: Linux, CPU: MIPS, image type: OS Kernel Image, compression type: lzma, image name: "Linux Kernel Image"
160           0xA0            LZMA compressed data, properties: 0x5D, dictionary size: 33554432 bytes, uncompressed size: 2956312 bytes
917600        0xE0060         PackImg section delimiter tag, little endian size: 7348736 bytes; big endian size: 2256896 bytes
917632        0xE0080         Squashfs filesystem, little endian, non-standard signature, version 3.0, size: 2256151 bytes, 1119 inodes, blocksize: 65536 bytes, created: 2010-11-23 11:58:47

root@kali:# ls _Dlink_firmware.bin.extracted/
[                                            h_adv_dmz.php                          qos.sh
0                                            h_adv_firewall.php                     qos.xml
0ro                                          h_adv_mac_filter.php                   random
1                                            h_adv_network.php                      rcS
1ro                                          h_adv_port.php                         reboot
2                                            h_adv_qos.php                          __rebooting_msg.php
2ro                                          h_adv_routing.php                      Reboot.php

The above is happening with all the firmwares and not just for this specific example. At the same time, the extract-firmware.sh is working perfectly and extracting the files correctly in the subfolder tree structure.

Binwalk version : Binwalk v2.1.2b Tried using both the github version, as well as the kali repo one. Any pointers will be highly appreciated.

[LuKePicci]

I simply uninstalled p7zip, so it’s clearly something that should be fixed in binwalk.

The screenshot is from the good old htop in tree view.

[vincentcox]

Thanks for the reply!

The screenshot is from the good old htop in tree view.

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