Brother embroidery design
File type: Graphics file
Files with pec file extension can be typically encountered as special embroidery design files for Brother stitching / sewing machines.
Found 2 different file type records with the same pec filename suffix.
File type category:
Graphics file
Date updated: October 4, 2017
The pec file extension is most likely only related to one of the embroidery design formats used in Brother machines.
PEC format Stores embroidery design along with instructions fro the sewing / stitching machine.
Many embroidery design tools should be capable of opening / importing of .pec files.
Various embroidery designs can be usually converted between different vendor formats.
Software applications that can open pec files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Software applications that can edit pec files:
Microsoft Windows
Multiplatform
Software capable of saving pec files:
Microsoft Windows
Multiplatform
Programs for viewing pec files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that create pec files:
Microsoft Windows
OESD ARTsizer
Software apps that convert pec files:
Multiplatform
Software apps that import pec files:
Microsoft Windows
Multiplatform
Software apps that export pec files:
Microsoft Windows
Multiplatform
A company logo, a funny pictogram or whatever picture can be nowadays turned in to embroidery design...
File type category:
Ransomware encrypted file
Date updated: October 25, 2026
The pec file extension is also used by the Italian ransomware known as PEC 2017, which was discovered in early May 2017.
The ransomware leaves an AIUTO_COME_DECIFRARE_FILE.html ransom note in affected folders.
PEC 2017 files cannot normally be opened because their original contents have been encrypted. They must be decrypted before the affected files can be used.
No decryptor for PEC 2017 files is currently known.
The original files can be converted only after they have been decrypted.
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