[Request] Help me to gather clean file samples

[Deque]

Hello EZ.

I have a request and hope that someone is willing to help me out.
I am currently working on my master thesis, writing a PE library and malware detector. I have enough malicious file samples, but I need clean ones too to improve the detector as it works with statistical information. I have already gathered some samples from my Win 7 64 Bit machine and a VM with Win XP. I think I need more diverse samples from different OS.

I am looking for samples from e.g. Win 7 32 Bit, Win 8, Win Vista.
Everything equal or above Win NT 3.1 suffices.

So if anyone has a Windows system installed (e.g. in a VM, I don't care as long as it isn't infected) and would be willing to gather some PE samples for me, I would be greatful.

There is a program that will copy the files: https://github.com/IOActive/SearchAndCollect
I have also written a Java program that searches all PE files recursively from a starting folder and copies them into a destination folder, if you prefer this.

Thank you.
Deque

Edit: If you know another way of getting a lot clean samples, let me know as well.

[Kulverstukas]

If it helps you can check my project dir for some exe's: http://9v.lt/projects/index.php?dir=
For that project you linked to, I didn't bother to compile it if you could provide and exe, that'd be great...

[Deque]

If it helps you can check my project dir for some exe's: http://9v.lt/projects/index.php?dir=
For that project you linked to, I didn't bother to compile it if you could provide and exe, that'd be great...

I will give you my program, but I am in a hurry right now; I am leaving the town, will be back on monday and post my program then.
Thanks a lot for your support.

[Deque]

Here is the pe file finder I made: https://github.com/katjahahn/PortEx/raw/master/progs/pefilefinder.jar (6.55 KB)

Run on commandline: java -jar pefilefinder.jar <startfolder for recursive search>

Thanks for helping me out!

[Kulverstukas]

PM sent.

[Deque]

@Kulver: I would like to put you into the acknowledgements of my thesis, because you gathered file samples for you. But I need to know, which name I should put there. Your nick? Your real name?  Or just without mentioning who it was, but thanking all people who gathered files? (Three people by now)

[Kulverstukas]

Thanks for that you can put the nickname or just say thanks, whatever is better for you...

[kenjoe41]

@Kulver: I would like to put you into the acknowledgements of my thesis, because you gathered file samples for you. But I need to know, which name I should put there. Your nick? Your real name?  Or just without mentioning who it was, but thanking all people who gathered files? (Three people by now)

Damn, i gave it my all C:\ path, almost 2+Gb.
Looked for you some time back to ask where am gonna spent my night dropping them but to no vail. Anyway i compressed them to 400-500-ish which should be uploadable. Any ideas or should i just pick afew and send them?

[Kulverstukas]

Try splitting it up and use Mediafire.

[Deque]

See Kulver. ^