Reverse Engineering of Python built executables

Reverse Engineering of Python built executables

PyInstaller and py2exe bundle a Python application and all its dependencies into an executable file. The user can run the EXE file without installing a Python interpreter or any modules. As we all know, Python is an easy and effortless scripting language, so malware authors prefer Python for writing malware and convert it into an exe file using py2exe or PyInstaller. In this blog, I am going to explain how to reverse those binaries and extract the Python source code. ...

August 1, 2017 · 5 min · 986 words · Melted in Hex