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   # disable these two checks
- pypackerdetect program.exe --imports-threshold 5 --bad-sections-threshold 5
- pypackerdetect program.exe --peid-db-path user_db.txt --sections-json sections.json

Detection Mechanisms

• PEID signatures
• Known packer section names
• Entrypoint in non-standard section
• Threshold of non-standard sections reached
• Low number of imports
• Overlapping entrypoint sections

Related Projects

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• 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).