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0x0 on Feb 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Malware Museum

Aren't these two statements contradictory?

  > * was only 419 bytes long
  > * infected both .COM and .EXE, 
      increasing the size of the former 
      by only 1813 bytes

db48x on Feb 6, 2016 | [–]

Compressing the payload was pretty common.

CaptSpify on Feb 5, 2016 | [–]

I know nothing about these, but is it possible it put it's code in multiple places on the .com or .exe?

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