m to be structured in a way that makes them invariant to random bytes being added to the end. Linux's ELF executable format, for example, indexes all sections in the file from the beginning of the file, <a href="https://dotink.co/posts/elf/">as I wrote about before</a>. It doesn't seem like this is a universal property of executable file formats we can always assume, since other file formats (like ZIP archives) index into the file from its end, but the executable formats used by common operating systems are