AUTOMATIC UNPACKING OF EXECUTABLES

Provided are methods and systems for unpacking and analyzing malware for purposes of identification and investigation. A malicious executable or an application containing malicious code is executed in sandboxed memory to unpack the executable. The memory is then dumped to disk and one or more post-processing operations are performed to generate a new version of the executable, including identifying an initial entry point of the executable, recreating the relocation table, and recreating the import address table, export table, and other tables of the executable. Various types of analyses, such as static analyses, which could not be performed on the malicious executable, are able to be performed on the new version of the executable.