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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.

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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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and if you're curious about the DOS stub of a PE: COM 101 - a DOS executable walkthrough (PNG+PDF+SRC+COM)

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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