Understanding the Windows PE Header and Section Table.
tetsuo

Nov 1, 2025 · 9:46 AM UTC

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MZ isn't a magic number, it's a tribute to Mark Zbikowski, who was one of the lead developers of MS-DOS @Microsoft. The MZ header marks the beginning of DOS executables & later became part of the PE (Portable Executable) format used by Windows. I played with MZ by Norton, guess!
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hah, i didn't know the thing about Mark Zbikowski. cool
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Replying to @tetsuoai
I am still a noob at this. I can learn by watching and doing. Can you lead me to more of videos on windows apps structure and app security
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Of course, Umer. I'll make a good post.
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Replying to @tetsuoai
Wow, not many people dig into this stuff anymore. Mostly Russians :-) Here are a few awesome books from back in the day. Probably you have them, but worth jotting down.
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I gotta share this with the group, because it is hilarious. I was talking to Claude about your post. Much hilarity.
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Replying to @tetsuoai
This is super cool, I use WindowsPE daily
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Another new topic...I gotta study. Thanks Tetsuo!
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PE header breakdown's gold...MZ magic to sections demystified.
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What tools did you use to view table layout like this? I like how it shows the table header and their respective bytes data
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Cool used Dosbox the other day to play games in DOS
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hey i was learning about static and global all those thing there i came cross stuffs like pe and some other file also for storing stings at runtime for compiler.
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Is this dos 4.0 open source released few days ago?
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that would be very helpfull back in the day. All I managed to do was a COM executable.
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i wish I could've structured things like this when I recoded the nm command back then
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What about ELFes and Linux?
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cool :-) now ELF time :-) and remember FreeBSD can run Linux binaries thanks to that :-)
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No thanks. Moved to Linux. Microsoft wants to own you.