Packed Executable iDentifier 
Detect packers on PE files using signatures.
This tool is an implementation in Python of the Packed Executable iDentifier (PEiD) in the scope of packing detection for Windows PE files based on signatures. It uses a combination of more than 5.500 signatures merged from the following sources:
$ pip install peid
The main tool checks the input executable against the embedded or user-defined signatures database.
$ peid --help
[...]
$ peid program.exe
[...]
$ peid program.exe --db custom_sigs_db.txt
The second tool allows to inspect signatures.
$ peid-db --db path/to/userdb.txt --filter UPX
The third tool allows to create and integrate new signatures.
$ peid-sig *.exe --db path/to/userdb.txt --packer UPX --version v3.97 --author jsmith
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- Docker Packing Box: Docker image gathering packers and tools for making datasets of packed executables.
- DSFF: Library implementing the DataSet File Format (DSFF).
- PyPackerDetect: Packing detection tool for PE files (fork of this repository).
- REMINDer: Packing detector using a simple heuristic (inspired from this paper).
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