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#!/usr/bin/env python
# By Daniel Pistelli & Nguyen Tan Cong
# This script is to patch DLL/EXE MajorVersion to 5,
# so they can be loaded by Windows XP.
# This is the problem introduced by compiling on Windows 7, using VS2013.
import sys, struct
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print("Usage: %s <pe_file_path>" % sys.argv[0])
sys.exit(0)
pe_file_path = sys.argv[1]
with open(pe_file_path, "rb") as f:
b = f.read()
if not b.startswith("MZ"):
print("Not a PE file")
sys.exit(0)
e_lfanew = struct.unpack_from("<I", b, 0x3C)[0]
vb = struct.pack("<HHHHH", 5, 0, 0, 0, 5) # encode versions
# patches MajorOperatingSystemVersion and MajorSubsystemVersion
b = b[0:e_lfanew + 0x40] + vb + b[e_lfanew + 0x4A:]
# write back to file
with open(pe_file_path, "wb") as f:
f.write(b)