COFF or MPDB debug directory is present

ID PE001 Level WARNING Category Security

Description

COFF or MPDB (Portable PDB) debug directory is present in the portable executable. These directories contain embedded symbols which will ease reverse engineering of an executable.

Mitigation

Disable embedded debugging information for the executable.

If building a .NET image using Visual Studio, select another type of debugging information via project options.

Arguments

This rule has no output arguments.