diff --git a/src/apphost-extract/TestProject/Program.cs b/src/apphost-extract/TestProject/Program.cs
index 398757b..b0c340e 100644
--- a/src/apphost-extract/TestProject/Program.cs
+++ b/src/apphost-extract/TestProject/Program.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Security.Cryptography;
 
 namespace TestProject
 {
@@ -6,8 +10,30 @@ namespace TestProject
     {
         static void Main(string[] args)
         {
-            Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
-            Console.ReadLine();
+            // this originally was meant to test the extractor and now turned into the hash generator
+            Console.WriteLine("Generating hashes.txt...");
+            var existing = File.ReadAllLines("hashes.txt").ToList();
+            var files = Directory.GetFiles(".\\files");
+            SHA256Managed sha = new SHA256Managed();
+            foreach (var file in files)
+            {
+                try
+                {
+                    var hash = BitConverter.ToString(sha.ComputeHash(File.ReadAllBytes(file))).Replace("-", "");
+                    if (existing.Contains(hash))
+                    {
+                        Console.WriteLine(file + " is known");
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    File.AppendAllText("hashes.txt", hash + "\n");
+                    existing.Add(hash);
+                }
+                catch
+                {
+                    Console.WriteLine("exception lol");
+                }
+            }
+
         }
 
     }
diff --git a/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/FileChecker.cs b/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/FileChecker.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f147c97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/FileChecker.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Reflection;
+using System.Security.Cryptography;
+using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace apphost_extract_v2
+{
+    public static class FileChecker
+    {
+        private const string HASHFILE = "apphost-hashes.txt";
+        private static SHA256Managed sha = new SHA256Managed();
+        private static string[] Hashes;
+
+        public static void Load()
+        {
+            var path = Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location), HASHFILE);
+            if (File.Exists(path))
+                Hashes = File.ReadAllLines(path);
+            else
+            {
+                Log.Error("apphost-hashes.txt wasn't found, only running cert check.");
+                Console.WriteLine();
+                Hashes = new string[0];
+            }
+        }
+
+        public static bool IsKnownFile(byte[] buffer)
+        {
+            var hash = BitConverter.ToString(sha.ComputeHash(buffer)).Replace("-", "");
+            return Hashes.Contains(hash) || SignedByMS(buffer);
+        }
+
+        public static bool SignedByMS(byte[] buffer)
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                X509Certificate cert = new X509Certificate(buffer);
+                return cert.GetCertHashString() == "2485A7AFA98E178CB8F30C9838346B514AEA4769";
+            }catch { return false; }
+        }
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/HashChecker.cs b/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/HashChecker.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index c846a8e..0000000
--- a/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/HashChecker.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Text;
-
-namespace apphost_extract_v2
-{
-    public class HashChecker
-    {
-        
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/Models/General/IApphostFile.cs b/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/Models/General/IApphostFile.cs
index 8ea0322..21b7fe5 100644
--- a/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/Models/General/IApphostFile.cs
+++ b/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/Models/General/IApphostFile.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Reflection.PortableExecutable;
 using System.Text;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
 
 namespace apphost_extract_v2.General
 {
@@ -21,24 +22,33 @@ namespace apphost_extract_v2.General
         public void ExtractAll(string outputDir)
         {
             Directory.CreateDirectory(outputDir);
-            foreach (var fileEntry in Header.Manifest.FileEntries)
+          
+            foreach(var fileEntry in Header.Manifest.FileEntries)
+            //Parallel.ForEach(Header.Manifest.FileEntries, fileEntry =>
             {
                 try
                 {
                     var bytes = FileStream.ReadBuffer(fileEntry.Offset, fileEntry.Size);
                     var name = fileEntry.Name;
+                    if (FileChecker.IsKnownFile(bytes))
+                    {
+                        Log.Info($"Extracting {name} --> Known file", ConsoleColor.Green);
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        Log.Info($"Extracting {name} --> Unknown file", ConsoleColor.Yellow);
+                        name = name.Insert(0, "_");
+                    }
+
                     var filePath = Path.Combine(outputDir, name);
                     File.WriteAllBytes(filePath, bytes);
-
-                    Log.Critical($"Extracted {name}");
-
                 }
                 catch (Exception ex)
                 {
                     Log.Error($"Could not extract {fileEntry.Name}: {ex.Message}");
                 }
-
-            }
+            }//);
+            Console.WriteLine();
         }
 
         public abstract void Close();
diff --git a/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/Program.cs b/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/Program.cs
index 55f8b95..34f505a 100644
--- a/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/Program.cs
+++ b/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/Program.cs
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ namespace apphost_extract_v2
         {
             Log.Info("apphost-extract-v2 by VollRagm\n", ConsoleColor.Yellow);
 
-            var fileInfo = GetFileInfo(args);
+            FileChecker.Load();
+
+            var fileInfo = GetFileInfo(new string[] { "net5.0.2.exe" });
 
             var apphostAnalyzer = new Analyzer(fileInfo);
             var apphost = apphostAnalyzer.Open();
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ namespace apphost_extract_v2
             var directory = Path.Combine(fileInfo.DirectoryName, fileInfo.Name.Remove(fileInfo.Name.Length - fileInfo.Extension.Length) + "_extracted");
             apphost.ExtractAll(directory);
 
-            Log.Info("Done.");
+            Log.Info("Extraction completed successfully and unknown files have been prefixed with _ .");
             Console.ReadLine();
         }
 
@@ -40,7 +42,8 @@ namespace apphost_extract_v2
                 {
                     if (File.Exists(args[0]))
                     {
-                        return new FileInfo(args[0]);
+                        var fullPath = Path.GetFullPath(args[0]);
+                        return new FileInfo(fullPath);
                     }
                     else
                     {
diff --git a/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/apphost-extract-v2.csproj b/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/apphost-extract-v2.csproj
index 119f455..07720de 100644
--- a/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/apphost-extract-v2.csproj
+++ b/src/apphost-extract/apphost-extract-v2/apphost-extract-v2.csproj
@@ -2,8 +2,13 @@
 
   <PropertyGroup>
     <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
-    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFrameworks>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFrameworks>
     <RootNamespace>apphost_extract_v2</RootNamespace>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
+  <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(TargetFramework)|$(Platform)'=='Debug|netcoreapp3.1|AnyCPU'">
+    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
+    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
+  </PropertyGroup>
+
 </Project>