XPEViewer VS LIEF

Compare XPEViewer vs LIEF and see what are their differences.

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XPEViewer LIEF
3 4
872 4,127
- 1.9%
10.0 9.4
5 days ago 13 days ago
C++ C++
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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XPEViewer

Posts with mentions or reviews of XPEViewer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

LIEF

Posts with mentions or reviews of LIEF. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-26.
  • What's the Most Portable Way to Include Binary Blobs in an Executable?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2022
    My team is working on this problem in the context of creating Node.js single-executable applications. While the naive approach of just appending data at the end of the binary works, it is not friendly with code-signature in macOS and Windows given that signing operates on PE and Mach-O sections.

    We have recently open-sourced a small tool called Postject (https://github.com/postmanlabs/postject), which is able to inject arbitrary data as proper ELF/Mach-O/PE sections for all major operating systems (with AIX support coming). The tool also provides C/C++ cross-platform headers for easily traversing the final binary and introspect whether the segment is present or not.

    The tool is based on the LIEF (https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF) project.

    At Postman, we are making use of this on our custom Node.js single-executable applications and soon on our custom Electron.js builds too.

  • Pefile python module features
    2 projects | /r/Malware | 17 Mar 2022
    https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF https://lief-project.github.io/doc/latest/api/python/index.html
  • Collection of tools for executable packing detection
    6 projects | /r/Malware | 15 Jan 2022
    Bintropy: Entropy-based packing detection featuring multiple modes (whole binary, per section or segment). Based on the awesome LIEF library, therefore supports ELF, PE, Mach-O.
  • rabin2 for scraping ELF to JSON
    2 projects | /r/ELFLinking | 16 Oct 2021
    I've been looking at LIEF toolkit for similar purposes (https://github.com/lief-project/LIEF). It's a python framework for cross platform binary analysis. I'm curious, does rabin2 support dll format?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing XPEViewer and LIEF you can also consider the following projects:

pe-bear-releases - PE-bear (builds only)

dll-proxy-generator - Creates a proxy dll which sits between the game and original dll

pe-sieve - Scans a given process. Recognizes and dumps a variety of potentially malicious implants (replaced/injected PEs, shellcodes, hooks, in-memory patches).

radare2 - UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

pe-util - List shared object dependencies of a portable executable (PE)

tree-sitter-html - HTML grammar for Tree-sitter

Pepper - PE32 (x86) and PE32+ (x64) binaries analysis tool, resources viewer/extractor.

pe - A :zap: lightweight Go package to parse, analyze and extract metadata from Portable Executable (PE) binaries. Designed for malware analysis tasks and robust against PE malformations.

x64dbg - An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.

vivaldi_modding - Custom modifications for Vivaldi web browser.

libpe - Library for parsing internal structures of PE32/PE32+ binary files.

bintropy - Analysis tool for estimating the likelihood that a binary contains compressed or encrypted bytes