Example:

PE-Bear: Visualize DLL Side-Loading and Sample Correlation

Practical and convenient for observing malware correlations in a single window.
Also valuable for incident response and IoC collection.

Example:
PE‑Bear + DIE: Abilities vs Factory — Imphash & Rich Header
This helps you group variants and attribute their build environments quickly.

Example:
PE-Bear + DIE: Fast Shows Structural Evolution — and What It’s Changed.
Compare Mode is ideal for comparing related samples in a malware family.
This helps you trace the malware evolution and also study the PE structure with a GUI.

Example:
PE-Bear + DIE: Fast Pack Check — and Why It’s Packed.
Combine this with other skills, like strings scanning and experience-based analysis.
This helps you decide the next step: sandbox, unpack, or reverse engineer.

PE-bear provides rapid string scanning and plaintext visibility inside suspicious binaries. Like DiE and Malcat Lite, it’s an effective first-step triage tool for malware such as ransomware — a quick way to spot early indicators before diving deeper into reverse engineering.

Love it: PE-bear supports dumping multi-layer embedded binary repeatedly—it lists them in a clean tree so you can extract multiple payloads fast. Excellent UX, practical features, and clearly designed for analysts. Recorded a short follow-up demo showing repeated extraction. 💙

I used PE-bear for the first time to dump an embedded binary. Its intuitive UI made extraction effortless. Because malware often embeds payloads with the form A in B to evade detection, pulling out the inner binary was crucial for deeper analysis and IoCs hunting.