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**This is a work in progress! Here I hope to organize learnings from various malware development series and courses I am currently taking.

# Where to place your payload

This table showcases possible places to put your payload within a PE file with notes about the section and why to place a payload there.

| section name | purpose | reason(s) to store payload |
|--------------|---------|----------------------------|
| `.data`      | contains initialized global <br> and static variables | section is readable and writable, <br> making it suited for an encrypted payload | 
| `rdata`      | ? | ? |