I’m always questioning myself if I’m doing this right. Say, I have a Windows binary (file.dll) and the matching symbols file for it (file.pdb) that I want to statically analyze in Ghidra.

My steps for loading it in Ghidra are as follows:

• I place both file.DLL and file.pdb in the same folder.

• I then drag file.DLL into - hmm, idk what it’s called, a small Ghidra window with the list of binaries in my project.

• I then let Ghidra recognize it as a binary file and do some of its juju.

• then double click file.dll in that list to open it in the main Ghidra window

• it then asks me if I want to analyze it. I click yes and go with default options.

• then after some waiting when the analysis is done

• in Ghidra’s main window, I go to File -> Load PDB file and pick the PDB.

• then again in the main Ghidra window I go to Analysis -> Auto Analyze “file.dll”

• and wait again for the analysis to finish.

Is that how you open a binary with symbols?