This is an interesting demonstration of the capabilities of afl; I was actually pretty surprised that it worked! $ mkdir in_dir $ echo 'hello' >in_dir/hello $ ./afl-fuzz -i in_dir -o out_dir ./jpeg-9a/djpeg In essence, I created a text file containing just "hello" and asked the fuzzer to keep feeding it to a program that expects a JPEG image (djpeg is a simple utility bundled with the ubiquitous I