BlackBerry releases an open source tool for malware analysis

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BlackBerry has released an open source tool to analyze malware. PE Tree is a Python app for examining portable executable files, which are often used to distribute malware.

The company released the tool this week during the virtual BlackHat conference. The code of the tool has now been put on GitHub. The tool is suitable for Linux, Windows and macOS and is written in Python. It can be installed as a standalone application, but also as a plug-in for IDAPython.

Researchers can use the tool to analyze portable executable files through a tree structure. The tool also includes integration for VirusTotal’s search and code can be routed to CyberChef code analysis tool.

In recent years, more and more open source and free tools have been released for analyzing malware. In the past, such tools came from security companies and they cost a lot of money.

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