Making libmagic/file detect .docx files
You can use
0 string PK\x03\x04\x14\x00\x06\x00 Microsoft Office Open XML Format
in /etc/magic to identify the general file type based on the information you supplied.
(However, this might not be universal: PK\x03\x04\x00\x14\x08\x08 has been observed at the start of LibreOffice-generated XLSX files.)
Later versions of Ubuntu have a go at correctly identifying the .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx files. Digging around in the sorce code for the file utility I found the ~/file-5.09/magic/Magdir/msooxml file which does the identification. You can get a copy of the file and add it to your /etc/magic file.
Including copy of the file that has been updated to v 1.5
# $File: msooxml,v 1.5 2014/08/05 07:38:45 christos Exp $
# msooxml: file(1) magic for Microsoft Office XML
# From: Ralf Brown <[email protected]>
# .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx are XML plus other files inside a ZIP
# archive. The first member file is normally "[Content_Types].xml".
# but some libreoffice generated files put this later. Perhaps skip
# the "[Content_Types].xml" test?
# Since MSOOXML doesn't have anything like the uncompressed "mimetype"
# file of ePub or OpenDocument, we'll have to scan for a filename
# which can distinguish between the three types
# start by checking for ZIP local file header signature
0 string PK\003\004
!:strength +10
# make sure the first file is correct
>0x1E regex \\[Content_Types\\]\\.xml|_rels/\\.rels
# skip to the second local file header
# since some documents include a 520-byte extra field following the file
# header, we need to scan for the next header
>>(18.l+49) search/2000 PK\003\004
# now skip to the *third* local file header; again, we need to scan due to a
# 520-byte extra field following the file header
>>>&26 search/1000 PK\003\004
# and check the subdirectory name to determine which type of OOXML
# file we have. Correct the mimetype with the registered ones:
# http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179224.aspx
>>>>&26 string word/ Microsoft Word 2007+
!:mime application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
>>>>&26 string ppt/ Microsoft PowerPoint 2007+
!:mime application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
>>>>&26 string xl/ Microsoft Excel 2007+
!:mime application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
>>>>&26 default x Microsoft OOXML
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But leaving V1.2 here for posterity.
Including a copy here as the link above can go out of date as the file package is updated.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# $File: msooxml,v 1.2 2013/01/25 23:04:37 christos Exp $
# msooxml: file(1) magic for Microsoft Office XML
# From: Ralf Brown <[email protected]>
# .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx are XML plus other files inside a ZIP
# archive. The first member file is normally "[Content_Types].xml".
# Since MSOOXML doesn't have anything like the uncompressed "mimetype"
# file of ePub or OpenDocument, we'll have to scan for a filename
# which can distinguish between the three types
# start by checking for ZIP local file header signature
0 string PK\003\004
# make sure the first file is correct
>0x1E string [Content_Types].xml
# skip to the second local file header
# since some documents include a 520-byte extra field following the file
# header, we need to scan for the next header
>>(18.l+49) search/2000 PK\003\004
# now skip to the *third* local file header; again, we need to scan due to a
# 520-byte extra field following the file header
>>>&26 search/1000 PK\003\004
# and check the subdirectory name to determine which type of OOXML
# file we have
# Correct the mimetype with the registered ones:
# http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179224.aspx
>>>>&26 string word/ Microsoft Word 2007+
!:mime application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
>>>>&26 string ppt/ Microsoft PowerPoint 2007+
!:mime application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
>>>>&26 string xl/ Microsoft Excel 2007+
!:mime application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
>>>>&26 default x Microsoft OOXML
!:strength +10
file, version prior to 5.13, will truncate MIME type to 64 characters. So using the content of msooxml, the MIME type from file -bi command becomes "mime application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.d; charset=binary"