PyPackerDetect 
Detect packers on PE files using heuristics and signatures.
A complete refactoring of this project to a Python package with a console script to detect whether an executable is packed.
pefile is used for PE parsing. peid is used as implementation of PEiD.
$ pip install pypackerdetect
$ pypackerdetect --help
[...]
usage examples:
- pypackerdetect program.exe
- pypackerdetect program.exe -b
- pypackerdetect program.exe --low-imports --unknown-sections
- pypackerdetect program.exe --imports-threshold 5 --bad-sections-threshold 5
Detection Mechanisms
- PEID signatures
- Known packer section names
- Entrypoint in non-standard section
- Threshhold of non-standard sections reached
- Low number of imports
- Overlapping entrypoint sections
Related Projects
You may also like these:
- Awesome Executable Packing: A curated list of awesome resources related to executable packing.
- Bintropy: Analysis tool for estimating the likelihood that a binary contains compressed or encrypted bytes (inspired from this paper).
- Dataset of packed ELF files: Dataset of ELF samples packed with many different packers.
- Dataset of packed PE files: Dataset of PE samples packed with many different packers (fork of this repository).
- Docker Packing Box: Docker image gathering packers and tools for making datasets of packed executables.
- DSFF: Library implementing the DataSet File Format (DSFF).
- PEiD: Python implementation of the well-known Packed Executable iDentifier (PEiD).
- REMINDer: Packing detector using a simple heuristic (inspired from this paper).
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