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How to find and READ the IMAGE_IMPORT_DESCRIPTOR structures in a WIN PE

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Hi everyone,

I have been mucking about trying to read PE header information. I know (and use) several very nice PE dumpers, among them PEInfo. I'm trying to write C that will contain some of their functionality.

In particular, I would like to be able to read the information in the imports section.

I am stalled trying to find the IMAGE_IMPORT_DESCRIPTOR structures for a test PE. My code gets me to what seems to be the correct address (in the .rdata section)and using OLLYDBG I can "see" the structures in memory. But, no matter what I seem to try, I can't actually read the values for OriginalFirstThunk or FirstThunk fields. When I dereference pointers to these values, I get crazy numbers.

Somebody out there must have a suggestion. I'd love to get it.

Thanks,
Mark Allyn
Aug 14 '10 #1
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