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Microsoft has released Sysmon 15, converting it into a protected process and adding the new ‘FileExecutableDetected’ option to log when executable files are created.

Ildasm takes a file containing MSIL as input (a DLL or EXE file) and outputs source code suitable for the assembler tool (Ildasm.exe).

Within the executable, all content is procedurally generated from a single data file, so if you don't edit or replace the data file, remove all the code you don't use when using that data file. no ...

This paper considers an example of hidden embedding into an executable file of exe format or into a similar elf-format for the Unix/Linux systems.