Collaborative RCE Tool Library - Packers (including sub-categories)

Tool Updated: Crinkler

2010-03-04T17:57:55Z

Listed in categories: Packers, Tiny Executables Packers

Most recent version:
1.2

Most recent release date:
September 5, 2009

Description:
Crinkler is an executable file compressor (or rather, a compressing linker) for Windows specifically targeted towards compressing 4k intros.

Tool Updated: WinUPack 3.99 and UPack 3.999

2009-07-19T05:03:41Z

Listed in categories: Packers

Most recent version:
3.999

Most recent release date:
July 18, 2009

Description:
One of the first "breakthrough" PE packers.

Also uses nice trick with twisted load address (many of the powerful commercial tools fall on their knees).

Tool Updated: EXPressor

2009-07-19T05:03:16Z

Listed in categories: Packers

Most recent version:
1.7.0.1

Most recent release date:
July 18, 2009

Description:
eXPressor - Software Protection System and PE Compressor
Used as a compressor this tool can compress EXE files to half their normal size. Once compressed, the files execute just like normal. As a protector It is designed to protect applications against crackers; also can help developers in creation of uncrackable registration keys, and implementation of trial version for protected software.

Features:
-excelent compression ratios ~70%
(this is - tighter than .rar, .zip, upx etc.);
-multilevel packing (over and over the same file);
-support for various 32bit PE files like .exe, .dll, .net, .ocx, .scr;
-customizable resource compression;
-password protection for applications;
-counteraction to classical memory dumping tools;
-detection of cracking tools like file or registry monitors, debuggers;
-application integrity check (agains viruses, resource modifications);
-anti-debugging and anti-disassembling;
-anti memory patching techniques;
-protection of application's imported functions using different methods (emulation etc.);
-eXPressor offers a set of APIs for interaction betweend decompressing routines and protected applications;
-registration keys system using RSA based encryption/decryption algorithm; -keys can be generated using specific hardware ID; say STOP to your application keygenerators;
-"stolen" registration keys management, integration of stolen keys in new protected versions of the application;
-eXPressor offers the possibility of creating "trial" versions of the application, with limited functionality, and limited evaluation time or number of executions;
-reminder message in unregistered version of protected programs;
-shell integration, project file saving, command line support and more

Tool Updated: CSharpFuscator

2009-06-25T00:44:49Z

Listed in categories: .NET Packers

Most recent version:
1.0

Most recent release date:
June 24, 2009

Description:
The CSharpFuscator tool scrambles .NET source code to make it very difficult to understand or reverse-engineer. This provides significant protection for source code intellectual property, and even provides protection against the all-too-disassembly of .NET object code.

Tool Added: Javascript Packer

2009-03-27T15:00:35Z

Listed in categories: Javascript Packers

Most recent version:
3.0

Most recent release date:
August 29, 2007

Description:
Packs javascript code to minimal size, including optional "obfuscation" using base62 encoding etc. Good e.g. for creating bookmarklets.

Tool Updated: SecurePE

2009-02-25T21:05:23Z

Listed in categories: Packers

Most recent version:
1.6

Most recent release date:
October 22, 2008

Description:
SecurePE is a user friendly freeware utility coded in 32bit assembly language that protects Microsoft Windows® PE files with a password, strong RC4 encryption and checksum while leaving them totally functional.

Tool Updated: DotNet Protector Win32

2009-01-26T14:31:15Z

Listed in categories: .NET Packers

Most recent version:
5.4

Most recent release date:
November 8, 2008

Description:
dotNet Protector is a powerful .NET code protection system that prevents your assemblies from being decompiled. With dotNet Protector, your application is not simply obfuscated, but method bodies are encrypted. EXE DLL, ASPNET and SQL assemblies can be protected. You can protect a whole application (main exe, referenced dlls) in a single executable. Your .NET code will run entirely from memory, without temporary disk storage.

Protection can be done interactively with an intuitive graphical interface, or automated, using the command-line functionalities of dotNet Protector.

dotNet Protector includes a powerful hardware sensitive anti-piracy system and extensions to help you develop your own software activation system. dotNet Protector is self-protected and uses its internal software activation system.

Tool Added: Phoenix Protector

2008-06-03T15:18:53Z

Listed in categories: .NET Packers, Packers

Most recent version:
1.3.0.1

Most recent release date:
June 2, 2008

Description:
The Phoenix Protector was created to protect .NET assemblies and it's the ideal solution for every .NET developer, due to its support of every kind of project and compatibility with every version of the .NET framework. It has all common obfuscation features to secure your code. It provides obfuscation features like Name, String and Control Flow Obfuscation. The last feature is particularly important since it prevents the .NET assembly from being decompiled into an understandable language. The Name Obfuscation is provided with an exclusion list.

I first wrote the core of the Phoenix Protector for a company when I was 19. That project didn't work out for internal reasons not related to the quality of the product itself. I then wrote the Phoenix Protector, which was basically a new GUI for the now improved core. However, during the years (one has to consider that I was quite young when I developed the .NET obfuscator) I became ever more conscious that I didn't want to spend my life writing protections and also that I was not convinced by protections for the .NET technology in the first place. That's partly why I wrote Rebel.NET. By combining Rebel.NET with the DisasMSIL engine it is very easy to write a code obfuscator for .NET assemblies. The only thing which would be missing is name obfuscation and string encryption, which are even easier as protections. That's why I'm releasing the Phoenix Protector for free: nowadays, writing a commercial obfuscator doesn't make much sense to me. The code obfuscation provided by the Phoenix Protector is quite good when compared to other commercial obfuscators. I noticed that most obfuscators provide a very easy to reverse code obfuscation scheme. I'm not saying that the Phoenix Protector's code obfuscation can't be reversed. Every .NET code obfuscation scheme can be reversed somehow and the rebuilding task becomes very easy through Rebel.NET.

Tool Updated: DiProtector

2008-01-19T23:41:42Z

Listed in categories: Mobile Platform Packers

Most recent version:
1.3

Most recent release date:
March 22, 2006

Description:
diProtector is a first software protection tool for PDA developers.

diProtector includes the following features:

* total destruction of the protected code fragments logic, which makes it impossible to analyse by disassembling;
* detection and protection from active debuggers like eVC, eVB debuggers and others;
* protection from code tracing under a debugger;
* protection of application's import table;
* entry point protection;
* protection from code modification;
* protected registry work;
* resource and executable code compression;
* internal short (16 chars) serial number manager with strong encryption (symmetric crypto–algorithm 3DES is used);
* external serial number generator with keygen interface;
* quick addition of trial–features and short serial number support to any applications;
* no more "owner names" needed yet. Unique ID produced by diProtector is a MD5 hash–function of PresetID, PlatformID and random number. Therefor it's unique to each device and protected programs copy.

Tool Added: DiPacker

2008-01-19T23:41:02Z

Listed in categories: Mobile Platform Packers

Most recent version:
1.4

Most recent release date:
March 22, 2006

Description:
diPacker is an advanced executable file compressor for PDA, capable of reducing the file size of programs by as much as 70%. diPacker makes executable files and libraries smaller, increase free space on memory cards, decrease load times across networks, and download times from the internet; it also protects programs against reverse engineering. Programs compressed with diPacker are self–contained and run exactly as before, with no runtime performance penalties.

Tool Updated: RLPack

2008-01-01T12:21:13Z

Listed in categories: Packers

Most recent version:
1.20

Most recent release date:
November 30, 2007

Description:
RLPack is a software that gives you the power to compress your executables and dynamic link libraries in a way that keeps them small and has no effect on compressed file functionality. Further more RLPack protects your files from modification and has several protection options which help protecting your files from being changed or cracked. But compression and protection does not stop there. RLPack with iBox module can pack your dynamic link libraries and place them inside the main executable so they can not be modified. They are extracted directly to memory (or optionally to disk) hiding their presence and enabling you to keep your dynamic link libraries safe from being used by third party programs or users.

Tool Updated: FSG

2007-12-29T00:58:23Z

Listed in categories: Packers

Most recent version:
2.0

Most recent release date:
Long time ago

Description:
Still kicking around... again like with aND's pack, if the depack routine survives, you can expect solid compression results. And a lot of false positives (AVG and Avira).

Tool Updated: AND's pakk2

2007-12-29T00:57:04Z

Listed in categories: Packers

Most recent version:
0.18

Most recent release date:
July 16, 2007

Description:
This guy is from the scene gang :)
That means he needs something that will squeeze his code that is never bigger than 200KB.
If you have something like that, and the depacker survives depacking without crashing, you can expect better results than with LZMA. Only if it survives.

Tool Updated: Burneye

2007-12-07T08:55:49Z

Listed in categories: Linux Packers, Packers

Most recent version:
1.0.1

Most recent release date:
December 24, 2002

Description:
Burneye ELF encryption program, with full source and docs.