# Return the generated shellcode with open("example.bin.aligned", "rb") as f: return f.read()

```bash msvc -c example.bin.noheader -Fo example.bin.aligned

dumpbin /raw example.exe > example.bin

* **Fix the shellcode:** The resulting binary data might not be directly usable as shellcode. You may need to:

```bash dd if=example.bin of=example.bin.noheader bs=1 skip=64 * **Align to a page boundary:** Shellcode often needs to be aligned to a page boundary (usually 4096 bytes). You can use a tool like `msvc` to align the shellcode: