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by majewsky 3170 days ago
> RE defense method

How does UPX defend against reverse engineering? The binary literally contains the code to reverse the UPX compression (otherwise it couldn't run), and I'd expect all antiviruses to be able to unpack UPX executables.

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It's just for adding obscurity, hence only one of the methods being in use.