The file size doubled. The mystery was gone. Elias clicked 'Save,' and the once-hidden code was finally free to be read.
A more versatile tool that can handle ASPack along with many other common packers. aspack unpacker
In 2016, researchers at Google Project Zero discovered a "trivial buffer overflow" in the ASPack unpacker used by Symantec. Because the engine ran in the Windows kernel, an attacker could gain full system permissions just by sending a packed file via email—no user interaction required. 5. Common Versions and Compatibility The file size doubled
The packer changes the PE (Portable Executable) header to point to its own decompression routine. aspack unpacker