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The PE File Format

Wednesday, 23 February 2011 , Posted by genesisdatabase at 09:42

A very good article to understand on how the PE file format works B. Luevelsmeyer.  Below are the contents included.  This article was given to me by a member by the handle mindlessdeath from HackForums.


  • Preface

  • General Layout

  • DOS-stub and Signature

  • File Header

  • Relative Virtual Addresses (RVA)

  • Optional Header

  • Section directories

  • Sections' raw data

  • Acknowledgements

  • Copyright

  • Bug reports

  • Versions

  • Literature

  • Appendix


Article: http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_TechDocs/pe.txt

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