Assembly Segments

Question 1

Stack

Answer 1

Hold non static local variables.

Question 2

Heap

Answer 2

Contains dynamically allocated data that can be uninitialized at first

Question 3

.data

Answer 3

Contains global and static data initialized to a nonzero value. I.e. Application/global variables

Question 4

.bss

Answer 4

Contains global and static data that is uninitialized or initialized to zero

Question 5

.text

Answer 5

Contains the code of the program

Question 6

.rdata

Answer 6

Read only data

Question 7

.pdata

Answer 7

Information about exceptions

Question 8

.rsrc

Answer 8

Resources section. Can contain different objects like pictures, icons, manifest files, other PE files (dlls/exes), etc.

Question 9

.reloc

Answer 9

Reloc info. Asks windows loader to safely load modules with randomized address space. Modules at DLLs or EXEs