WinBenign is a smart tool for automatically downloading safe Windows PE files from FileHippo and other trusted sources. It’s ideal for malware research, building datasets, or creating a reliable corpus of benign executables.

• Downloads benign Windows PE samples automatically
• Currently supports FileHippo
• Easy to extend for other sources

Adding support for:

• Softonic
• CNet
• Sourceforge
• Add VirusTotal scanner to downloaded samples and generate a report

Clone the repo and run the crawler:

git clone https://github.com/0xh3xa/WinBenign.git
cd WinBenign
python crawler.py