peid
Python implementation of the Packed Executable iDentifier (PEiD) (by packing-box)
bintropy
Analysis tool for estimating the likelihood that a binary contains compressed or encrypted bytes (by packing-box)
| peid | bintropy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 119 | 38 | |
| 2.5% | - | |
| 5.0 | 6.7 | |
| 3 months ago | 3 months ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
peid
Posts with mentions or reviews of peid.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-15.
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Collection of tools for executable packing detection
PEiD (Python version): Yet another version of it (I found a few others, but always with an outdated userdb.txt), but with a userdb.txt merged from various repositories and an additional tool for making new signatures.
bintropy
Posts with mentions or reviews of bintropy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-15.
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Collection of tools for executable packing detection
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing peid and bintropy you can also consider the following projects:
LIEF - LIEF - Library to Instrument Executable Formats
pe-bear-releases - PE-bear (builds only)
pypackerdetect - Packing detection tool for PE files
PyPackerDetect - A malware dataset curation tool which helps identify packed samples.
avatar2 - Python core of avatar²
pyhidra - Pyhidra is a Python library that provides direct access to the Ghidra API within a native CPython interpreter using jpype.
ennemi - Easy Nearest Neighbor Estimation of Mutual Information
machofile - machofile is a module to parse Mach-O binary files
pev - The PE file analysis toolkit
docker-packing-box - Docker image gathering packers and tools for making datasets of packed executables and training machine learning models for packing detection