Julia Evans has written a great yet succint overview of ELF files: https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/06/how-to-read-an-executable/ https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/06/ho

Julia Evans has written a great yet succint overview of ELF files: https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/06/how-to-read-an-executable/ https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/06/how-to-read-an-executable/ Among other things she points to this graphic showing the structure of an ELF file which I hadn't seen before: https://code.google.com/archive/p/corkami/wikis/ELF101.wiki https://code.google.com/archive/p/corkami/wikis/ELF101.wiki.