xexe

Protect your application from antivirus on Windows

about

• BoxedAppSDK for create virtual file
• QuickLZ for compress/decompress data

[C/C++ application] +-----> [bxsdk] => execute => exit code
  > resources                  ^
    | icon                     | [decompress] :: built-in
    | rcdata: bin +------------+
               ^
               | [compress] :: ./tools/tobin.exe
[Another .exe] +

usage

• Compress an executable file to .bin

$> tools/tobin.exe file.input output.bin

• Copy this .bin to src/res/ and rename to app.bin
• Change icon by replacing file src/res/icon.ico
• Edit version info in src/res.rc
• Open xexe.sln (with Visual Studio 2010+) and build on Release mode
  • consle for console subsystem (with console application)
  • windows for windows subsystem (with GUI application)

You can use compiled binaries (in bin/..) and change its resources by using Resource Hacker.

• RCData: .bin
• Icons: .ico

compare

AutoIt program

#include <array.au3>

MsgBox(0, 'Test', 'Hello, world!')
_ArrayDisplay($CmdLine, 'Commandline array')

VirusTotal

• app.exe - 9/72
• console.exe - 1/72
• console_x64.exe - 1/71