Measuring the similarity between two files

Now, we are going to see how to apply ssdeep to measure the similarity between two binary files. The applications of this concept are many, but one in particular is using the similarity measure as a distance in clustering.

Getting ready

Preparation for this recipe consists of installing the ssdeep package in pip. The installation is a little tricky and does not always work on Windows. Instructions can be found at https://python-ssdeep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html.

If you only have a Windows machine and it does not work, then one possible solution is to run ssdeep on an Ubuntu VM by installing pip with this command:

pip install ssdeep

In addition, download a...