https://github.com/mentebinaria/readpe
The PE file analysis toolkit
https://github.com/mentebinaria/readpe
binary-analysis malware-analysis malware-research pe-file portable-executable reverse-engineering
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The PE file analysis toolkit
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mentebinaria/readpe
- Owner: mentebinaria
- License: gpl-2.0
- Created: 2012-02-16T03:59:41.000Z (over 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-05-09T15:29:36.000Z (about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-09T16:41:40.497Z (about 1 month ago)
- Topics: binary-analysis, malware-analysis, malware-research, pe-file, portable-executable, reverse-engineering
- Language: C
- Homepage:
- Size: 2.37 MB
- Stars: 724
- Watchers: 46
- Forks: 135
- Open Issues: 13
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# readpe - PE Utils
Open source, full-featured, multiplatform command line toolkit to work with
and analyze PE (Portable Executables) binaries.
## How to get the source code
git clone https://github.com/mentebinaria/readpe.git
## How to build on Linux
cd readpe
make
**NOTE**: You may need to install OpenSSL using your package manager. Examples:
apt install libssl-dev
yum install openssl-devel
## How to install on Linux
cd readpe
sudo make install
echo "/usr/local/lib" | sudo tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libpe.conf
sudo ldconfig
## How to build on macOS
cd readpe
CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include/" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/" make
**NOTE**: You may need to install OpenSSL and PCRE via [Homebrew](https://brew.sh):
brew update
brew install openssl
## How to build on Windows (via [Cygwin](https://cygwin.com))
cd readpe
make
make zip
**NOTE**: The following packages must be installed along with your Cygwin:
| Category | Package |
|----------|---------------|
| Archive | zip |
| Devel | binutils |
| Devel | gcc-core |
| Devel | git |
| Devel | make |
| Net | libssl-devel |
## FAQ
### Is this pev? / What happened to pev?
This repository used to be pev. We just moved the repository from a user account
to an organization account.
We also renamed the repository as the original name `pev` stood for PE Version
and does not reflect the current state of this application. We felt that readpe
was a good name as it is the most prominent tool.
### Where did libpe go?
Libpe has been absorbed into this repository since the two repositories are
tightly coupled and version controling them together made the most logical sense.
### I get a `fatal error: 'openssl/evp.h' file not found`. How can I fix that?
Please install OpenSSL for your system. Use a package manager to make things easier. If you're compiling pev in macOS,
make sure you've set both CFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables according.
Please check the [online documentation](https://pev.sourceforge.io/doc/manual/en_us/) for more details.
### I get an `error while loading shared libraries: libpe.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory`. How can I fix that?
Please refer to ['How to install on Linux'](#how-to-install-on-linux).
## License
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
with the exception of the contents of lib/libpe which are licensed under the
GNU Lesser General Public License version 3.
A copy of these licenses can be found respectively in the project root and lib/libpe.