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Want to look inside PE format? The free PEAnatomist utility supports almost all known and some undocumented structures inside MS PortableExecutable files (EXE, DLL, SYS and the like), LIB files and object files in COFF, MSVC CxxIL and ExtendedObj formats, and also performs simple analysis of the received data. [hide][Hidden Content]]

The free PEAnatomist utility supports almost all known and some undocumented structures inside MS PortableExecutable files (EXE, DLL, SYS and the like), LIB files and object files in COFF, MSVC CxxIL and ExtendedObj formats, and also performs simple analysis of the received data. File Formats PE32 PE32+ COFF Object MSVC IntermediateLanguage nonCOFF Object File (MSVC CxxIL) nonCOFF ExtendedObj Objects Library PE Image Architectures Intel x86 AMD64 ARM7 ARM7 Thumb ARM8-64 Intel IA64 CHPE (x86 on ARM) ARM64X (x64 on ARM64) A little of supported headers and data structures PE: IMAGE_DOS_HEADER, IMAGE_FILE_HEADER, IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER, IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER64 and the DataDirectories List with additional information about some fields PE: Table of COFF symbols PE: Sections table, supporting long section names (via symbols table) and entropy calculating PE: Import table (supports MS-styled names demangling) PE: Bound Import Table PE: Delayed Import Table PE: Export Table with additional info PE: Resource Table with additional info about different resource types and detailed view for all types PE: Base Relocation Table. Target address determining and interpretation available for all supporting architectures. It detects imports, delayed imports, exports, tables from loadconfig directory, ANSI and UNICODE strings. PE: Brief info about PE Authenticode Signature PE: LoadConfig Directory with SEH, GFID, decoded CFG bitmap, GIAT, CFG LongJumps, CHPE Metadata, ARM64X Metadata, Dynamic Value Reloc Table, Enclave Configuration, Volatile Metadata, CFG Eh Continuations tables parsing and additional information about some fields PE: Debug Directory. It parses contents of CODEVIEW, POGO, VC FEATURE, REPRO, FPO, EXDLL CHARACTERISTICS, SPGO debug types PE: TLS config and callbacks table with additional information about some fields PE: Exceptions Data Table. x64 (including version 2 with EPILOG unwind codes), arm, arm64, ia64 architectures are support, as well as chain of unwind data for x64, language-specific handler data (C Scope, C++ FuncInfo, C++ EH4, C++ DWARF LSDA) and hexadecimal view of unwind data PE: COM Descriptor directory pasring: headers, tables and metadata info available. Some of NGEN and ReadyToRun headers are also included PE: Decode Rich signature indicating the tool used, the action being taken, the full version of the tool, and the version of VisualStudio to which the tool belongs PE: IAT table contents PE: VB5 and VB6 typical structures: project info, DLLCall-imports, referenced modules, object table PE: Detecting an ANSI and Unicode encoded strings PE: Plotting entropy OBJ: IMAGE_FILE_HEADER, ANON_OBJECT_HEADER, ANON_OBJECT_HEADER_V2, IMPORT_OBJECT_HEADER OBJ: COFF symbol table with decoding @comp.id and @feat.00, as well as auxiliary symbols OBJ: Section table and relocations for the selected section OBJ: Exceptions Data Table. x64 (including version 2 with EPILOG unwind codes), arm, arm64, ia64 architectures are support, as well as chain of unwind data for x64 OBJ: Functions xFG-hash values table OBJ: Table of CodeView Debug Symbols OBJ: Table of CodeView Types OBJ: Table of MSVC CxxIL Types (.cil$db) OBJ: Table of MSVC CxxIL Global Symbols (.cil$gl) OBJ: Table of MSVC CxxIL Local Symbols (.cil$sy) LIB: List of archive members LIB: The first and second (if available) linker members LIB: Summary table of import elements IMPORT_OBJECT_HEADER, if any [hide][Hidden Content]]