Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

Memory that is both writable and executable and is not linked to any file on disk is a classic sign of code injected at run time. malfind highlights such regions because they often hold unpacked shellcode or a decrypted payload used by the malware after it has bypassed static detection. Dumping that memory block lets the analyst disassemble or submit the payload to additional tools (IDA, CAPE, YARA) to understand its capabilities. Simply ignoring the region, scanning the original executable, or looking for kernel drivers would miss the active malicious code.