print_pe / print_minidump / print_pdb

Author: Michael Kohn Web: https://www.mikekohn.net/

Tools for dumping the contents of Window executables, MiniDump crash files, and PDB files.

Features:

• Dump DOS header along with DOS binary.
• Dump all PE headers to readable text.
• Dump exported / imported function names.
• Extract resource files (.ico, .bmp, etc).
• Dump COM info including CLSID's.
• Limited ability to modify functions (make it return a value every time instead of running code.
• Dump information from Windows minidump (core) crash file.
• Dump information, including symbol addresses, from debug pdb files.
• Dump information from .lib files.

TODO:

• Dump .NET headers

How to use print_pe

Find a DLL, EXE, OCX, or whatever Windows executable file and type:

./print_pe file.dll

To change a function called blah in file.dll to always return the value 100:

./print_pe -modify blah 100 file.dll

Highly recommended to make a backup of the DLL since it will overwrite code that is already there.

How to use print_minidump

MiniDump files can be generated when a Windows program crashes or they can be forced to be created on a running process. To dump the contents of the file type:

./print_minidump filename.dmp

How to use print_pdb

Since print_pdb has a lot of information, there are command line arguments for filtering out which sections are displayed.

Usage: print_pe [options] <input file>
  -all                     (Show all streams)
  -dir                     (Show directory stream)
  -tpi                     (Show TPI stream)
  -ipi                     (Show IPI stream)
  -symbols                 (Show symbols)
  -dump <filename> <index> (Dump stream at index to filename)

To show all the symbols in the pdb file, just type:

./print_pdb -symbols filename.pdb

To show all the streams in the pdb file, there is a -dir option and the ability to dump that stream to a file so it could be analyzed with another tool (maybe a hex editor) there is a -dump option. For example, to dump the DBI debug information (which is always index 3):

./print_pdb -dump dbi.bin 3 filename.pdb

How to use print_lib

./print_lib filename.lib

Notes

It's possible that there is more data that can be extracted from these files. If something is missing let me know and it can be added.