playing with UpdateResource

[ragdog]

hi

i have a questions to UpdateResource!
i playing with UpdateResource for add files to resource in a another exe
this works succesfully
   
But if I had added to the file are in hex-editor of the exe file these strange strings what is this

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PADD
INGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING



thanks
ragdog

[Tedd]

It's just to take up space to keep the alignment and/or to avoid needing to resize the exe every modification.

[ragdog]

thanks for your reply

   
I can delete this stuff works since the executable file without error?

[Tedd]

You can overwrite it, since it will be ignored. If you want to remove it then you need to be careful as PE sections must be specific sizes - so you may need to rebuild the exe, not simply remove those bytes.

[ragdog]

thanks

i have written a routine to search for paddingxx... and fill this with 0 bytes!

greets
ragdog