libpe

A C/C++ library to parse Windows portable executables ( both PE32 and PE32+ ) written with speed and stability in mind.

Copyleft of Simone Margaritelli evilsocket@gmail.com http://www.evilsocket.net/

Features

• Fully compatible with both x86 and AMD64 binaries.
• Parse only what you are really interested into to reduce useless data parsing overhead.
• Export directory parsing, lookup symbols by name or ordinal.
• Import directory parsing with different configurations ( resolve ordinals, name demangling, etc ), fast modules and symbols lookup by name.
• Fast strings extraction ( both ascii and unicode ).
• Every RVA is returned as a structure with an absolute virtual address field ( base + RVA ), the corresponding raw offset into the file and a pointer to the data.
• Clean and doxygen documented API.
• Minimum speed and memory overhead.

Samples

• peview a sample PE dumper tool that will print informations extracted from any portable executable.
• pefunctions a proof of concept using libpe and distorm, analyzes and isolates functions from any portable executable.

TODO

• Cross platform compatibilty.
• Cross platform cmake files.
• Parsing of other directories such as resources, debug info, etc.
• Basic disassembly features.

License

Release under the GPL 3 license.