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In a past thread about hardware exploits, someone suggested simply having a device that poses as a keyboard and then types out the source of a rootkit and compiles it. Or even just type the binary straight onto the disk somehow.

That my friends, is genius. Credit goes to whoever suggested it originally.



It is possible to make a pure-ASCII executable. http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/eicar/eicarcom.html


I don't see how you could do this for PE files, which would be required to pull this off on x64 (since you can't run 16-bit binaries like .COMs). There are several fields in the headers that require non-ASCII values.


With PowerShell or WSH?


This link is very interesting. I thought incorrectly that it was only a random string. You should submit the link.




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