diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 12577f10f..26d55bc1f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Note that flags using the @<version> can be used for earlier versions of each sp
 - Go (go.mod, Go binaries)
 - GitHub (workflows, actions)
 - Haskell (cabal, stack)
-- Java (jar, ear, war, par, sar, nar, native-image)
+- Java (jar, ear, war, par, sar, nar, rar, native-image)
 - JavaScript (npm, yarn)
 - Jenkins Plugins (jpi, hpi)
 - Linux kernel archives (vmlinz)
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_filename.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_filename.go
index b753def1d..1e3efb50d 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_filename.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_filename.go
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ func (a archiveFilename) extension() string {
 
 func (a archiveFilename) pkgType() pkg.Type {
 	switch strings.ToLower(a.extension()) {
-	case "jar", "war", "ear", "lpkg", "par", "sar", "nar", "kar":
+	case "jar", "war", "ear", "lpkg", "par", "sar", "nar", "kar", "rar":
 		return pkg.JavaPkg
 	case "jpi", "hpi":
 		return pkg.JenkinsPluginPkg
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_filename_test.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_filename_test.go
index 985604912..6c73426eb 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_filename_test.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_filename_test.go
@@ -187,6 +187,13 @@ func TestExtractInfoFromJavaArchiveFilename(t *testing.T) {
 			name:      "gradle-build-cache",
 			ty:        pkg.JavaPkg,
 		},
+		{
+			filename:  "pkg-extra-field-maven-4.3.2-rc1.rar",
+			version:   "4.3.2-rc1",
+			extension: "rar",
+			name:      "pkg-extra-field-maven",
+			ty:        pkg.JavaPkg,
+		},
 	}
 
 	for _, test := range tests {
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_parser.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_parser.go
index 477168afc..5e3d188a1 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_parser.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/archive_parser.go
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ var archiveFormatGlobs = []string{
 	// LifeRay makes it pretty cumbersome to make a such plugins; their docs are
 	// out of date, and they charge for their IDE. If you find an example
 	// project that we can build in CI feel free to include it
+	"**/*.rar", // Java Resource Adapter Archive
 }
 
 // javaArchiveHashes are all the current hash algorithms used to calculate archive digests
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/cataloger_test.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/cataloger_test.go
index 7bed8cfcb..b5acbe4a9 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/cataloger_test.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/cataloger_test.go
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ func Test_ArchiveCataloger_Globs(t *testing.T) {
 				"java-archives/example.jpi",
 				"java-archives/example.hpi",
 				"java-archives/example.lpkg",
+				"java-archives/example.rar",
 				"archives/example.zip",
 				"archives/example.tar",
 				"archives/example.tar.gz",
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/test-fixtures/glob-paths/java-archives/example.rar b/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/test-fixtures/glob-paths/java-archives/example.rar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8944cbcc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/java/test-fixtures/glob-paths/java-archives/example.rar
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+example archive