Portable Executable Format

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Module 8 - Portable Executable Format Portable Executable (PE) is the file format for executables on Windows. A few examples of PE file extensions are .exe, .dll, .sys and .scr. This module discusses the PE structure which is important to know when building or reverse engineering malware. The diagram below shows a simplified structure of a Portable Executable. Every header shown in the ima…

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