{"library":"malduck","title":"Malduck","description":"Malduck is a Python utility library designed for malware researchers, offering a comprehensive suite of tools for malware analysis. It provides functionalities for cryptography, compression, memory model objects (for PE/ELF/raw files and IDA dumps), a modular extraction engine for configuration, fixed integer types, and string operations. Currently at version 4.4.1, the project is actively maintained with frequent updates addressing bugfixes and introducing new features.","language":"python","status":"active","last_verified":"Sun May 17","install":{"commands":["pip install malduck"],"cli":null},"imports":["from malduck import aes","from malduck import aplib","from malduck import DWORD","from malduck import Extractor","from malduck import procmempe","from malduck.yara import Yara"],"auth":{"required":false,"env_vars":[]},"quickstart":{"code":"from malduck import aes\n\nkey = b'\\x01\\x02\\x03\\x04\\x05\\x06\\x07\\x08\\t\\n\\x0b\\x0c\\r\\x0e\\x0f\\x10'\niv = b'\\x11\\x12\\x13\\x14\\x15\\x16\\x17\\x18\\x19\\x1a\\x1b\\x1c\\x1d\\x1e\\x1f\\x20'\nplaintext = b'This is a secret message.'\n\nciphertext = aes.cbc.encrypt(key, iv, plaintext)\ndecrypted_text = aes.cbc.decrypt(key, iv, ciphertext)\n\nprint(f\"Original Plaintext: {plaintext}\")\nprint(f\"Ciphertext (hex): {ciphertext.hex()}\")\nprint(f\"Decrypted Text: {decrypted_text}\")","lang":"python","description":"Demonstrates basic AES-CBC encryption and decryption using Malduck's built-in cryptography functions. This is a common task in malware analysis for handling encrypted configuration data.","tag":null,"tag_description":null,"last_tested":null,"results":[]},"compatibility":{"tag":null,"tag_description":null,"last_tested":"2026-05-17","installed_version":"4.4.1","pypi_latest":"4.4.1","is_stale":false,"summary":{"python_range":"3.10–3.9","success_rate":100,"avg_install_s":3.8,"avg_import_s":0.68,"wheel_type":"wheel"},"results":[{"runtime":"python:3.10-alpine","python_version":"3.10","os_libc":"alpine (musl)","variant":"malduck","exit_code":0,"wheel_type":"wheel","failure_reason":null,"import_side_effects":"clean","install_time_s":null,"import_time_s":0.57,"mem_mb":16.9,"disk_size":"64.1M"},{"runtime":"python:3.10-slim","python_version":"3.10","os_libc":"slim (glibc)","variant":"malduck","exit_code":0,"wheel_type":"wheel","failure_reason":null,"import_side_effects":"clean","install_time_s":3.8,"import_time_s":0.45,"mem_mb":17,"disk_size":"64M"},{"runtime":"python:3.11-alpine","python_version":"3.11","os_libc":"alpine (musl)","variant":"malduck","exit_code":0,"wheel_type":"wheel","failure_reason":null,"import_side_effects":"clean","install_time_s":null,"import_time_s":0.84,"mem_mb":18,"disk_size":"68.5M"},{"runtime":"python:3.11-slim","python_version":"3.11","os_libc":"slim (glibc)","variant":"malduck","exit_code":0,"wheel_type":"wheel","failure_reason":null,"import_side_effects":"clean","install_time_s":3.7,"import_time_s":0.86,"mem_mb":18,"disk_size":"69M"},{"runtime":"python:3.12-alpine","python_version":"3.12","os_libc":"alpine (musl)","variant":"malduck","exit_code":0,"wheel_type":"wheel","failure_reason":null,"import_side_effects":"clean","install_time_s":null,"import_time_s":0.71,"mem_mb":18.1,"disk_size":"59.9M"},{"runtime":"python:3.12-slim","python_version":"3.12","os_libc":"slim (glibc)","variant":"malduck","exit_code":0,"wheel_type":"wheel","failure_reason":null,"import_side_effects":"clean","install_time_s":3.3,"import_time_s":0.76,"mem_mb":18.2,"disk_size":"60M"},{"runtime":"python:3.13-alpine","python_version":"3.13","os_libc":"alpine (musl)","variant":"malduck","exit_code":0,"wheel_type":"wheel","failure_reason":null,"import_side_effects":"clean","install_time_s":null,"import_time_s":0.68,"mem_mb":18.9,"disk_size":"59.6M"},{"runtime":"python:3.13-slim","python_version":"3.13","os_libc":"slim (glibc)","variant":"malduck","exit_code":0,"wheel_type":"wheel","failure_reason":null,"import_side_effects":"clean","install_time_s":3.5,"import_time_s":0.73,"mem_mb":19,"disk_size":"60M"},{"runtime":"python:3.9-alpine","python_version":"3.9","os_libc":"alpine (musl)","variant":"malduck","exit_code":0,"wheel_type":"wheel","failure_reason":null,"import_side_effects":"clean","install_time_s":null,"import_time_s":0.56,"mem_mb":17.8,"disk_size":"64.2M"},{"runtime":"python:3.9-slim","python_version":"3.9","os_libc":"slim (glibc)","variant":"malduck","exit_code":0,"wheel_type":"wheel","failure_reason":null,"import_side_effects":"clean","install_time_s":4.5,"import_time_s":0.6,"mem_mb":17.8,"disk_size":"65M"}]}}