Malware development pt. 3 — EXE vs DLL files

popalltheshells
System Weakness
Published in
2 min readNov 11, 2022

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Before we create our first Portable Executable (PE), we need to understand the two types which are DLL (Dynamic Link Library) and EXE; since PE files can be either. As Cybersecurity professionals (or not), we often hear EXE and DLL and understand what they are at some level. However, I personally have never thought (until now) about trying to further understand how these two are differently executed on an…

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