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**This is a work in progress! Here I hope to organize learnings from various malware development series and courses I am currently taking.

Where to place your payload

This table showcases possible places to put your payload within a PE file with notes about the section and why to place a payload there.

section namepurposereason(s) to store payload
.datacontains initialized global
and static variables
section is readable and writable,
making it suited for an encrypted payload
rdata??