Comment on Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 466 bytesparentComments−samatman2yThe installation instructions made me smile. "turn this Base64 string into an executable" is the new "curl | sh"!Why did you decide to build the string backward?−meriboldOP2yI don't remember if it's why I initially did it, but it allows hardcoding the final characters of the output string ("%)\n") somewhere into the ELF header where they don't do damage ahead of execution.
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The installation instructions made me smile. "turn this Base64 string into an executable" is the new "curl | sh"!
Why did you decide to build the string backward?
I don't remember if it's why I initially did it, but it allows hardcoding the final characters of the output string ("%)\n") somewhere into the ELF header where they don't do damage ahead of execution.