UPDATE: For recent PyInstaller versions, the script below won't work. Please visit the pyinstxtractor wiki for more information.
It has been more than a quarter since the last post, and in the meantime, I was very busy and did not have the time to write a proper post. The good news is at the moment, I am comparatively free and can put in a quick post.
As said earlier, PyInstaller provides an option to encrypt the embedded files within the executable. This feature can be used by supplying an argument --key=key-string while generating the executable.
Detecting encrypted pyinstaller executables is simple. If pyinstxtractor is used, it would indicate this as shown in Figure 1.
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| Figure 1: Trying to extract encrypted pyinstaller archive |
