SKILL: Code Obfuscation & Deobfuscation — Expert Analysis Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert techniques for identifying, classifying, and defeating code obfuscation in native binaries. Covers junk code, opaque predicates, SMC, control flow flattening, movfuscator, VM protectors (VMProtect/Themida/Code Virtualizer), string encryption, import hiding, and anti-disassembly tricks. Base models often conflate packing with obfuscation and miss the distinction between static and dynamic deobfuscation strategies.

0. RELATED ROUTING

• anti-debugging-techniques when the obfuscated binary also has anti-debug layers
• symbolic-execution-tools when using angr/Z3 for automated deobfuscation
• vm-and-bytecode-reverse for deep VM protector bytecode analysis

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