During manual unpacking, after the debugger hits the OEP, what is the typical next step to obtain the unpacked executable?

Disassemble the unpacking stub to understand its algorithm

Set a breakpoint on the first instruction of the unpacked code and continue execution

Dump the process memory to a file and then rebuild the import table

Terminate the process and restart the analysis from the beginning

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During manual unpacking, after the debugger hits the OEP, what is the typical next step to obtain the unpacked executable?

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