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Title: playing with UpdateResource
Post by: ragdog on January 23, 2008, 07:18:20 PM

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

Code Select


PADD
INGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING
PADDINGXXPADDINGPADDINGXXPADDING

thanks
ragdog

Title: Re: playing with UpdateResource
Post by: Tedd on January 24, 2008, 12:54:36 PM

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

Title: Re: playing with UpdateResource
Post by: ragdog on January 24, 2008, 01:59:50 PM

thanks for your reply

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

Title: Re: playing with UpdateResource
Post by: Tedd on January 25, 2008, 12:37:33 PM

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.

Title: Re: playing with UpdateResource
Post by: ragdog on January 25, 2008, 01:32:14 PM

thanks

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

greets
ragdog

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