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Portable Executable File Format

2009; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-0-387-89468-3_3

2512-2193

Abhishek Singh,

Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

PE stands for 'portable executable' file format. As the name suggests, the format can be portable across all the 32-bit operating system and can be executed on any version of windows. The format is also being used by 32-bit dlls and Windows NT device derivers. The WINNT.H header file defines the structure definition representation for the PE file format. Understanding of PE file format is not only required for reverse engineering, but it is also required for understanding the concepts of operating system.