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Windows binaries are packed in a format called Portable Executable, or PE. This tool is a must have in every Incident Reponder’s toolbox. Also a great opportunity to work with the updated version of PE Studio as there have been some amazing changes to the program in the past 12 months. I thought it would be a good idea to come back around now that I am transitioning back into a technical role. Running PeStudio from the prompt offers the possibility to analyze the executable file and to create associated XML output files in a batch mode.I meant to write this post a long time ago, but life got crazy and my job got far less technical.

Prompt: PeStudio runs from the Graphical User Interface (GUI) as well as from the Command prompt (CLI).

The goal of this XML output Report file is to offer its further use by any third-party analysis tool. For this purpose, PeStudio can also produce an XML output report file documenting the executable file being analyzed.

Report: The goal of PeStudio is to allow investigators to analyze unknown and suspicious executable files.

Detected items can be saved to a file, allowing, therefore, the possibility of further analysis. EXE, DLL, SYS, PDF, CAB, ZIP, JAR, etc ). PeStudio detects many embedded file types (e.g.

Resources: Resources sections are commonly used by malware to host payload.

PeStudio brings out the intent and purpose of the application analyzed.

Blacklist files can be customized and extended according to your own needs. Several XML files are used to blacklist functions (e.g. PeStudio retrieves the libraries and the functions referenced.

Imports: Even a suspicious binary file must interact with the operating system in order to perform its activity.This feature can be switched ON or OFF using an XML file included with PeStudio. Only the MD5 of the file being analyzed is sent. Virus Detection: PeStudio can query Antivirus engines hosted by Virustotal.