Make sure you have binwalk installed
sudo apt install binwalk
Download the firmware from Ubiquiti’s website
https://ui.com/download/software/uap-ac-lite
We’ll need to extract the images a couple of times
binwalk -e 6.5.54.bin cd ./_6.5.54.bin.extracted binwalk -e 50FEE cd _50FEE.extracted/ binwalk -e 3C7CC4
The last binwalk will extract the actual file system.
cd _3C7CC4.extracted/cpio-root
Download some Ubiquiti firmware
wget https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/XC-fw/v8.7.11/WA.v8.7.11.46972.220614.0420.bin
Run binwalk with the -e option to extract the binary file
binwalk -e ./WA.v8.7.11.46972.220614.0420.bin
Binwalk should create a _WA.v8.7.11.46972.220614.0420.bin.extracted directory which we should be able to browse. The main “filesystem” is under squashfs-root.
# ls ./_WA.v8.7.11.46972.220614.0420.bin.extracted/squashfs-root bin dev etc init lib mnt proc run sbin sys tmp usr var