Learning Malware Analysis

2.2 Determining Cryptographic Hash in Python

In Python, it is possible to generate file hashes using the hashlib module, as shown here:

$ pythonPython 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10)>>> import hashlib>>> content = open(r"log.exe","rb").read()>>> print hashlib.md5(content).hexdigest()6e4e030fbd2ee786e1b6b758d5897316>>> print hashlib.sha256(content).hexdigest()01636faaae739655bf88b39d21834b7dac923386d2b52efb4142cb278061f97f>>> print hashlib.sha1(content).hexdigest()625644bacf83a889038e4a283d29204edc0e9b65