
Howto read and analyse the binary content correctly? This is my messy, not operational code: Offset 04h, 4 Byte = pointer to first IFD entry Offset 00h, 2 Byte = Byte Order, "II"=intel, "MM"=motorola. Notepad++, "View as Hex" is presenting the first bytes as "49 49 2a 20 08 20 20 20 12" for the TIF attached to this posting Download and extract it, and if your download or extraction failed, maybe your antivirus is enabled you should disable it first.To investigate the internal "dictionary" of TIFF files I'd like to read in the files in binary mode and to check, if there are more than one pages "in" this TIFF. Remember never to execute it because we don’t know yet how it affects your system.

I collect this malware from the fabricmagic72 repository. In this article, I will use Bitcoin miners’ malware as an example. One last reminder from me is that we are playing with malware, and if your computer is being infected, I can’t help. You can follow this if you want or just read the article. In this post, I want to share how to make your Notepad++ can be used to read a file as HEX. Why? because in this digital age, sometimes we can get anything from many sources without knowing it’s safe or not.

We need to read something in HEX format because we usually face something dangerous for our systems, such as malware or something we don’t recognize at a time. But, we can guarantee the safeness of that application. Well, there are many cracked versions of it. The typical way to read a file in HEX format is to use IDA, but IDA is not accessible for free. HEX, usually called “hexadecimal,” is a numerical mathematics system representing numbers using a radix (base) of 16.
