Preparation for this recipe consists of installing the pefile package in pip. The command is as follows:

pip install pefile

In addition, benign and malicious files have been provided for you in the PE Samples Dataset folder in the root of the repository. Extract all archives named Benign PE Samples*.7z to a folder named Benign PE Samples. Extract all archives named Malicious PE Samples*.7z to a folder named Malicious PE Samples.