How to add a new import to a PE file?

Hello,

Thanks for the library. I took a look at both the docs, the issues and the source code, but couldn’t find something similar to what I need to do: programatically add a new import to a PE file.

To read what are the current imports I use PeFile.ImportedFunctions, but I noticed it is read only. Any tips on how to achieve that?

My goal is to write an auto patcher that will be able to fetch a DLL from the internet and then patch it to load a custom DLL of mine. I’m able to do that manually using some software I found online called LordPE, but I need to do that programatically. Sadly there’s no source code available for it.

I’m also having a tough time grasping how to implement that from scratch myself. The general idea seems to be:

• Parse the PE
• Find the offset where the Import section starts
• Add a new import
• Update the offset
• Probably something more that I might be missing

Then I found out about PeNet and think it might be able to really help me out.

Thanks!

[secana]

Documentation to add imports: http://secana.github.io/PeNet/articles/imports.html

[secana]

Happy to hear that it works. I’ll keep the alpha out for a few more day in the case that you stumble upon a bug. If not I’ll merge it into master and release 2.3.0.