pescan(1)

pescan1

Identify suspicious characteristics in pe files

Usage

pescan [OPTIONS] ... pefile

Overview

pescan analyze a PE file statically to determine if it contains suspicious characteristics. It's part of pev, the PE file analysis toolkit.

pefile is a PE32/PE32+ executable or dynamic linked library file.

Options

-f, --format <text|csv|xml|html>

Change output format (default is text).

-v, --verbose

Show more information about found items.

-V, --version

Show version.

--help

Show help.

Examples

Search suspicious things in putty.exe:

$ pescan putty.exe

Releases

4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11–12
  3. 13

--verbose since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -v since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Reporting bugs

Please, check the latest development code and report at https://github.com/mentebinaria/readpe/issues

From readpe 0.84-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.