PE Tools - portable executable (PE) manipulation toolkit.

Table of contents

• Description
• Features
  • PE Editor
  • File Location Calculator
  • PE Files Comparator
  • Process Viewer and Manager
  • PE Dumper
  • PE Rebuilder
  • PE Sniffer
• System Requirements
• Limitations
• To do
• What’s new
• Creators
• Contacts

Description

PE Tools lets you actively research PE files and processes. Process Viewer and PE files Editor, Dumper, Rebuilder, Comparator, Analyzer are included. PE Tools is an oldschool reverse engineering tool with a long history since 2002. PE Tools was initially inspired by LordPE (yoda).

Features

PE Editor

• PE and DOS Headers Editor
• PE Sections Editor
• PE Directory Viewer and Editor
• Export Directory Editor
• Import Directory Editor
• Resource Directory Viewer
• Exception Directory Viewer
• Relocation Directory Viewer
• Debug Directory Viewer
• TLS Directory Editor
• Load Config Directory Editor
• Bound Directory Editor

File Location Calculator (FLC)

• Virtual Address
• Relative Virtual Address
• Raw File Offset

PE Files Comparator

• Side-by-side comparison of headers and characteristics of two PE files

Process Viewer and Manager

• Show basic process information
• Show process modules

PE Dumper

• Running process dumper
  • Full Dump
  • Partial Dump
  • Region Dump
• Dumper Server (accessible via Dumper Server SDK)

PE Rebuilder

• Dump Fixer
• Relocation Wiper
• Resource Directory Rebuilder
• PE file Validation
• Imports Binder
• ImageBase Changer

PE Sniffer

• Signature analysis of PE files
• Packer detection

HEX Editor

• HEX Editor available in:
  • Section Editor via section context menu
  • Every Data Directory in Directory Editor

Plugins

• PE Tools Plugin SDK available

What’s new in recent major releases

PE Tools v1.9

Complete PE Tools v1.9 announces:

• PE Tools v1.9 announce in English
• PE Tools v1.9 announce in Russian

Entropy View

• Entropy Viewer available in:
  • Main PE Editor dialog
  • Section Editor via section context menu
  • File Compare dialog for both compared files

64-bit Disassembler

• diStorm v3.3.4
• Shows jmp / call direction

Load Config Directory Editor

• IMAGE_LOAD_CONFIG_DIRECTORY support
• Additional Load Config Directory values and size support (non-standard sizes)

High-DPI display modes support

• 192 DPI supported
• DPI modes supported and tested: 96, 120, 144, 192
• Graphics redrawn:
  • Main Application Icon
  • Logo
  • Toolbar icons

Bug-fixes and minor changes

See HISTORY.

System Requirements

• Latest tested Operating System: Windows 11
• Supported Windows versions:
  • Windows 11
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7
• Minimal Operating System: Windows XP
• Administrative rights for SeDebugPrivilege
• macOS supported via Wine (tested Wine 3.4, 3.0, 2.16)
• ReactOS natively supported (tested ReactOS 0.4.7)

Limitations

• No large files support (over 4 GB)
• No ARM disassembler support (ARM architecture supported by [Windows 10 Mobile][win10.mob.wiki], Windows RT, Windows Phone, Windows IoT Core, Windows Embedded Compact)

Source code

throw std::exception("PE Tools source code is not available!");

• If you want to add some features, write ready-to-use snippet (C/C++) and post it in Issues

To do

• Win64 version
• File Overlay Analyzer and Extractor
• Authenticode Viewer
• Rich Signature Editor
• Relocations Checker
• Enhance Debug Directory Remover: remove debug section if empty
• Corkami binaries testing and support
• .NET Directory Viewer
• External Tools support (preliminary list):
  • x64dbg
  • Scylla Imports Reconstruction
  • Hiew
  • radare2
  • Resource Hacker
• Structures Export to readable formats like JSON / YAML
• Crypto tools (hash, decryption / decryption)
• ARM disassembler (far-far-away)

Distribution

File	Description	Lang
PETools.exe	main PE Tools executable
HEdit.dll	Hex-editor
RebPE.dll	PE Rebuilder
Signs.txt	PEiD signatures for PE Sniffer
ReadMe_EN.md	ReadMe	EN
WhatsNew_EN.md	What’s New	EN
WhatsNew_RU.md	What’s New	RU
petools.sha1	Checksums SHA-1

DOWNLOAD

• github.com/petoolse/petools/releases

Licensing

See LICENSE.

Creators

PE Tools

• NEOx [uinC] - versions up to 1.5, 2002-2006
• Jupiter - versions from 1.5, 2007-2018
• PainteR - versions from 1.8, 2017-2018
• Dmitry Andriyankov aka EvilsInterrupt aka NtVisigoth - versions from 1.5, 2012-2014

Additional modules

• Danilo Bzdok aka yoda (author of LordPE): original HEdit32 component.

Contacts

Feel free to contact via Twitter @petoolse.