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  "id": 12474,
  "title": "How clean are the .asm files?",
  "url": "/competitions/malware-classification/discussion/12474",
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  "post_date": "2015-02-11T05:38:20.323Z",
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  "content": "<p>Question to admin:</p>\n<p>Is it possible that any of the .asm files are obfuscated by anti-disassembling techniques or a packer?&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "64001",
      "postDate": "02/11/2015 05:38:20",
      "content": "<p>Question to admin:</p>\n<p>Is it possible that any of the .asm files are obfuscated by anti-disassembling techniques or a packer?&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "64064",
      "postDate": "02/11/2015 20:13:10",
      "content": "<p>Not an&nbsp;admin, but yes, some of the code seems to be obfuscated. (not the .asm files themselves, but some of the code would show as raw bytes rather than disassembled code inside the .asm).</p>",
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      "id": "64065",
      "postDate": "02/11/2015 21:01:53",
      "content": "<p>Yeah, I meant the code inside the .asm files, not the files themselves.</p>\n<p>If I'm not wrong those raw bytes may mean multiple things. It could be that IDA just (mistakenly or not) determined that section as data, not necessarily that it was packed/crypted/etc</p>",
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      "author_name": "photosynth",
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      "post_date": "02/11/2015 20:13:10",
      "content": "<p>Not an&nbsp;admin, but yes, some of the code seems to be obfuscated. (not the .asm files themselves, but some of the code would show as raw bytes rather than disassembled code inside the .asm).</p>",
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      "id": 64065,
      "author_name": "yankov",
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      "post_date": "02/11/2015 21:01:53",
      "content": "<p>Yeah, I meant the code inside the .asm files, not the files themselves.</p>\n<p>If I'm not wrong those raw bytes may mean multiple things. It could be that IDA just (mistakenly or not) determined that section as data, not necessarily that it was packed/crypted/etc</p>",
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