Analysis of suspicious binaries

<p>Introduction to tools to analyze Windows executable and binaries.</p> <h1>What is a binary file?</h1> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:389/1*bGYnHANTAQYgEta7zuXrHg.png" style="height:291px; width:389px" /></p> <p>A binary file is a file whose content must be interpreted by a program or a hardware processor that understands in advance exactly how it is formatted. That is, the file is not in any externally identifiable format so that any program that wanted could look for certain data at a certain place within the file.</p> <p>In other word, a binary file is a pre-compiled file.</p> <p>In general, executable (ready-to-run) programs are often identified as binary files and given a file name extension of &ldquo;.bin&rdquo;, or &ldquo;.exe&rdquo; or others.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@vikaspatel_8017/analysis-of-suspicious-binaries-eb14001ddf71"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>