{"id":429,"date":"2017-12-04T07:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T07:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvedmicrobe.com\/blogs\/?p=429"},"modified":"2017-12-04T07:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T07:13:51","slug":"how-to-decompile-reverse-engineer-pyinstaller-binaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/evolvedmicrobe.com\/blogs\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"How to Decompile \/ Reverse Engineer PyInstaller Binaries"},"content":{"rendered":"Sharing Python programs is a pain, and one solution to this problem is to package up all of the python code, the interpreter and the dependencies into an executable for distribution. PyInstaller<\/a>\u00a0is a popular program to perform this task.\r\n\r\nBut what if someone hands you a compiled binary and you want to read the source code?\u00a0 Although, PyInstaller has a well described format<\/a> and a tool<\/a>, that enable you to start decompiling the programs, it is much better to use another tool that was written specifically for decompilation, namely pyinstxtractor.py<\/a>.\u00a0 With this tool in hand it’s a simple:\r\n
python pyinstxtractor.py file_to_decompile\r\n<\/pre>\r\nAnd voila! You can read the previously obfuscated source (and find what they were ashamed of).\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharing Python programs is a pain, and one solution to this problem is to package up all of the python code, the interpreter and the dependencies into an executable for distribution. PyInstaller\u00a0is a popular program to perform this task. 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