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saagarjha on Aug 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

This is still quite useful when working on constrained shellcode, specifically the kind of shellcode you'd enter through a text input field.

throwaway2048 on Aug 24, 2020 [–]

You can even do one better, you can construct shellcode out of valid english sentences.

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~sam/ccs243-mason.pdf

Since COM files are basically just raw binary code without headers or metadata, it should be easy to adapt the technique to make valid english language COM files.

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