Code cave explained

A code cave^[1] is a series of unused bytes in a process' memory. The code cave inside a process's memory is often a reference to a section that has capacity for injecting custom instructions.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Uğurlu . Güney . Açıcı . Koray . An Analysis Tool that Detects The Code Caves in Specified Sizes for Portable Executable Files . ieeexplore.ieee.org . 2022 International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Computer Science and Engineering (ICTASCE) . 25 October 2025 . 38–41 . 10.1109/ICTACSE50438.2022.10009843 . September 2022.