Detect It Easy, or abbreviated "DIE" is a program to analyze files you load into the application.
It detects, among other things, the compiler and linker used, signatures, and other information about files.
The program has been designed specifically to reveal file signatures and how they are packed.
Some of the binary formats supported:
- MS-DOS: DOS MZ
- Windows: Portable Executable (PE)
- *Nix: Executable and Linkable Format (ELF)
- macOS: Mach Object (Mach-O)
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3.2122 Apr 2026
- Fix console output
- Fix some translations
3.2020 Apr 2026
- Build instructions for openSuse, Fedora, Arch Linux, WSL
- Microsoft Store port
- Downloads/tray monitoring, system env. variable
- Configurable BufferSize
- Improved Heuristic module for PE by DosX_dev
- New detects and optimization of all scripts (thanks to DosX_dev, hypn0, Kae, BJNFNE and all contributors)
- New scanning method: PEiD
- Some GUI changes
- Many bugs have been fixed
- Add AVX2 and SSE2 optimization
3.103 Nov 2024
- Bundle for Ubuntu 24.04 and 24.10
- APK/DEX/NPM/Amiga support
- Improved "Visualization" widget
- Improved Heuristic module for PE (thanks to DosX_dev)
- New "extra" database for not basic detections
- New detects and optimization of all scripts (thanks to DosX_dev, hypn0, Kae and all contributors)
- Some GUI changes
- Many bugs have been fixed