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Portable Executable 101 - a windows executable walkthrough

This graphic is a walkthrough of a simple Windows Portable Executable (download sources and binary here), that shows its dissected structure and explains how it's loaded by the operating system.

this analyzed PE file was entirely written by hand to be concise (standard PEs contain more informations that are not essential for such a first introduction).

You can download the poster, print it, distribute it, or even modify it (with attribution).

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SVGs:

made entirely under Inkscape
Creative Commons licence
requires the Envy Code R font

the light version also requires the Aracne and Just the way you are fonts.

Acknowledgments

Daniel Plohmann
David Curran
Fabian Sauter

Caroline Détente
Moritz Kroll
Nicolas Ruff
Patrick Fitzgerald

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