/Benign-NET

Benign .NET files

Apache License 2.0Apache-2.0

Benign-NET

This repo contains a huge ammount of normal .NET exe files. Files were collected from various resources.

This repository is organized as follows:

  • cnetnet folder - contains files collected from CNET website
  • netwindows folder - contains files collected from Windows files
  • softonicnet folder - contains files collected from Softonic website
  • sourceforgeexe folder - contains files collected from SourceForge website
  • netexe folder - contains files collected from other resources

These benign files were used in some papers [1] .

References

[1] Hassan, M., Eid, M., Elnems, H., Ahmed, E., Mesak, E., Branco, P. "Detecting Malicious .NET Files Using CLR Header Features and Machine Learning" 36th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2023, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 5–9, 2023.