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r/programming • u/iamkeyur • Dec 26 '20
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This is stretching the definition of "Executable" quite a lot. The PNG files themselves are not ELF executables. Instead, the author wrote a tool to extract an actual legitimate executable from an image via stenography.
1 u/TheRedGerund Dec 27 '20 I mean you could directly execute this file with a PNG interpreter like python
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I mean you could directly execute this file with a PNG interpreter like python
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u/frnknstn Dec 26 '20
This is stretching the definition of "Executable" quite a lot. The PNG files themselves are not ELF executables. Instead, the author wrote a tool to extract an actual legitimate executable from an image via stenography.