Linked Libraries and Functions
One of the most useful pieces of information that we can gather about an executable is the list of functions that it imports. Imports are functions used by one program that are actually stored in a different program, such as code libraries that contain functionality common to many programs. Code libraries can be connected to the main executable by linking.
Programmers link imports to their programs so that they don’t need to re-implement certain functionality in multiple programs. Code libraries can be linked statically, at runtime, or dynamically. Knowing how the library code is linked is critical to our understanding of malware because the information we can find in the PE file header depends on how the library ...
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