In my diary entry "Huge Signed PE File" we stripped a huge PE file with signature like this:

I was asked how to strip a PE file but keep the signature. So, doing this:

To achieve this, you follow the procedure as explain in my diary entry, and then you copy the signature from the original file to the stripped file with my disitool.py, like this:

Of course, the signature will remain invalid (except for a very special case :-) ).

Didier Stevens
Senior handler
Microsoft MVP
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