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Malware development part 8 - COFF injection and in-memory execution

0xpat.github.io | blog | #red-team | #code-injection | #cobalt-strike | #malware-development | #coff | #in-memory-execution
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Part 8 of the malware dev series: a COFF object-file loader à la Cobalt Strike's BOFs—compiling C to .obj, parsing headers, sections and relocations, then executing the machine code from memory.
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