---
id: 8054
title: "Introduction to Hacking Thick Clients: Part 4 – The Assemblies"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/thick-application-pentesting/introduction-to-hacking-thick-clients-part-4-the-assemblies/"
published_at: "2020-05-28T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["windows", "reverse-engineering", "binary-analysis", "thick-client", "dotnet", "pesecurity"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8054"
lang: en
---

# Introduction to Hacking Thick Clients: Part 4 – The Assemblies

## Summary

Covers assembly protections like ASLR, DEP, SafeSEH, and Authenticode signing, shows how PESecurity flags unsigned binaries, and explains decompiling .NET assemblies to review code.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2020-05-28T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/thick-application-pentesting/introduction-to-hacking-thick-clients-part-4-the-assemblies/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8054