Changelog

pev - the PE file analysis toolkit - ChangeLog

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* Improved/changed feature
- Bug fixed
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pev 0.80 - ?
 ! Missing documentation for libpe.
 ! peres does not reconstruct icons and cursors extracted from resources section.
 * Now the -V switch is used by all pev programs to show their version numbers.
 * pehash: Now the hash of the whole file is shown by default (-c option).
 * pestr: --net option removed (we may readd this in the future).
 * udis86 updated to version 1.7.2.
 + Basic plugins support.
 + cpload: new tool for CPL file debugging (Windows only).
 + Fixed: pestr: unable to handle too big strings.
 + Fixed: valid XML and HTML output formats (Jan Seidl)
 + pehash: Import Hash (imphash) support for both Mandiant and pefile's implementation.
 + peres: output the PE File Version with -v option.
 + Support for pev.conf configuration file.
 - readpe can now read virtual import descriptors.

pev 0.70 - December 26, 2013
 ! Missing full/English documentation.
 ! Missing valid XML and HTML output formats.
 ! pestr: no support for --net option when parsing unicode strings.
 ! pestr: unable to handle too big strings.
 * libpe: rewritten, now using mmap. (Jardel Weyrich).
 * pestr: added countries domains suffixes.
 * readpe and peres: output enhancements (Jardel Weyrich).
 + pehash: sections and headers hash calculation (Jardel Weyrich).
 + pehash: ssdeep fuzzy hash calculation.
 + pehash: support for new digest hashes like sha512, ripemd160 and more.
 + peres: added new tool to analyze/extract PE resources (Marcelo Fleury).
 + pescan: cpl malware detection.
 + pescan: undocumented anti-disassembly fpu trick detection.
 + pesec: show and extract cerfiticates from digitally signed binaries (Jardel Weyrich).
 - readpe can't show functions exported by ID only.
 - readpe: fixed subsystem types (Dmitry Mostovenko).

pev 0.60 - October 31, 2012
 ! Missing full/English documentation.
 ! Missing valid XML and HTML output formats.
 ! pestr: no support for --net option with unicode strings.
 ! readpe can't show functions exported by ID only.
 * pedis: -F/--function option replaced by -r/--rva.
 + added manpages for all tools.
 + pedis: added -m/--mode option to set disassembly mode (16, 32 or 64-bit).
 + pedis: added -n option to limit number of disassembled instructions.
 + pedis: added options to disassembly entrypoint and raw fille offset.
 + pedis: disassemble bytes number specified by -n option.
 + pehash: new tool to calculate PE file hashes (Jan Seidl).
 + pepack: added PEiD signature search (Rodrigo Escobar).
 + pescan: added -f/--format option to format output.
 + pescan: added section, imagebase and timestamp analysis.
 + readpe: added --exports option to show exported functions.
 - pedis: fixed address representation in calls and jump instructions.

pev 0.50 - June 25, 2012
 ! Missing documentation.
 ! Missing valid XML and HTML output formats.
 ! pedis shows arguments of jumps and calls as relative positions.
 * Improved pev tools Makefile (Gabriel Barbosa).
 * MEW packer detection in packid (Rodrigo Rubira).
 * pev now is a collection of binaries and a library to work with PE executables.
 + libpe: xmalloc trick and fixes (Rodrigo Rubira).
 + Output in monospaced text and csv in most programs.
 + pedis: disassemble functions and sections (Tiago Zaniquelli).
 + pepack: detect fake EP (Wagner Barongello).
 + pescan: new tool to search for suspicious things in PE files including TLS callbacks.
 + pesec: find security features in PE files.
 + readpe can now show imported functions with --imports or -i switch.
 + readpe: show PE headers and sections information (most of obsolete pev binary).
 + Released libpe 1.0 to support our programs.
 + rva2ofs and ofs2rva: convert from rva to raw file offset and vice-versa.
 - Fixed erroneuous ord numbers in functions imported without name.
 - Fixed two bugs with fake TLS callbacks in petls (thanks to Qualys guys for reporting).

pev 0.40 - August 7, 2011
 * Compatible with PE/COFF specification v8.2.
 * Date format in COFF header similar to RFC 2822.
 * Improved function to get machine type (Gabriel Duarte).
 + Added "-r" option to show resource items at first level.
 + Added more human-readable fields, like subsystem and section characteristics.
 + Added TLS callback functions detection in every PE section.
 + ASLR and DEP identification.
 + PE32+ support. Now pev can handle 64-bits executables.
 + Variable data directories support (no more fixed in 16).

pev 0.31 - May 11, 2011
 + Added characteristics flags in COFF output.
 + Added human-readable machine types in COFF output.
 - Fixed compilation in OS X. (Gustavo Roberto).
 - Fixed warning with Linux 32-bits boxes when compiling.

pev 0.30 - February 20, 2011
 * Improved memory use.
 * Now pev shows the Product Version with option "-p".
 + Added option "-a" to show all information.
 + Added option "-c" to show the COFF header.
 + Added option "-d" to show the DOS header.
 + Added option "-o" to show the Option (PE) header.
 + Added option "-s" to show executable sections.
 
pev 0.22 - January 9, 2011
 ! Does not support PE32+ files.
 ! Plans to read more PE informations.
 * Improved Makefile.
 + Added manpage.

pev 0.2 - December 26, 2011
 * Improved search algorithm.
 - Fixed bug compiling in MS-Windows platform.

pev 0.1 - December 12, 2010
   Initial release. (Eduardo Fernandes, Fernando Mercęs, Francivan Bezerra and Thiago Moraes).