Sometimes, diffing can remove obfuscation (albeit rarely)
Halvar Flake (halvar) <halvarflakesabre-securitycom> Friday, December 26 2008 12:31.00 CST


Hey all,

apologies for the sensationalist title, but I found another amusing example today where the same function was present in two different executables -- in two differently obfuscated forms. Amusingly, DiffDeluxe identified the "common components" between these two functions, effectively removing a lot of the obfuscation.


While this is clearly not a typical case, it nonetheless made me smile.

Merry Christmas everyone !