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Implementation of the packing detection heuristic from the paper "Packed PE File Detection for Malware Forensics" of Han et al.

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Detect packers on executable files using a simple entropy-based heuristic.

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REMINDer (REsponse tool for Malware INDication) is an implementation based on this paper into a Python package with a console script to detect whether an executable is packed using a simple heuristic.

lief is used for binary parsing.

$ pip install reminder-detector
$ reminder --help
[...]
usage examples:
- reminder program.exe
- reminder /bin/ls --entropy-threshold 6.9

Detection Mechanism

  1. Find the EP section
  2. Check whether it is writable
  3. If yes, check whether entropy is beyond a threshold (depending on the executable format)
  4. If yes, the input executable is packed ; otherwise, it is not

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