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MS-DOS stub program question

Subject: MS-DOS stub program question
Date: 9 Jun 2005 12:12:05 -0000
I posted this to my blog this morning, but wanted to follow up here, as well...

In PE executable files, there is an MS-DOS stub program, added by the linker, 
prior to the PE header (ie, "PE\0\0").  The stub program contains the message 
"This program cannot be run in DOS mode" or some variation.  This section may 
also contain additional information (that is, *not* be simply "0x00"), which 
may contain the letters "Rich".

My question is this...if someone is suspected of creating a PE executable (ie, 
malware), can this stub program information be used to track back to their 
linker?  

Thanks in advance...

H. Carvey
"Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery"
http://www.windows-ir.com
http://windowsir.blogspot.com (blog)

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