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I'm curious :) Does the AI detect the obfuscation?

• justusthane 1y ago
  Probably. It’s trivial to plug some obfuscated code into an LLM and ask it what it does.
  • spartanatreyu 1y ago
    Yeah, but just imagine how many false positives and false negatives there would be...
• 33a 1y ago
  It's actually pretty easy to detect that something is obfuscated, but it's harder to prove that the obfuscated code is actually harmful. This is why we still have a team of humans review flagged packages before we try to get them taken down, otherwise you would end up with way too many false positives.
  • Yoric 1y ago
    Yeah, what I meant is that obfuscation is a strong sign that something needs to be flagged for review. Sadly, there's only a thin line between obfuscation and minification, so I was wondering how many false positives you get. Thanks for the links in your other comment, I'll take a look!
• nurettin 1y ago
  I think that would be static analysis. After processing the source code normally (looking for net & sys calls), you decode base64, concatenate all strings and process again (until decode makes no change)