Decompyle++ aims to translate compiled Python byte-code back into valid and human-readable Python source code. While other projects have achieved this with varied success, Decompyle++ is unique in ...

During our continuous threat hunting efforts to find malware in open-source repositories, the ReversingLabs team encountered a novel attack that used compiled Python code to evade detection. It may be ...

Most security tools also don't typically run source code analysis when inspecting packages, which is "why malware hidden inside the Python compiled byte code could slip under the radar of the ...

Wheels with no Python source (only byte code) #123. Copy link. Labels. minor proposal. Description. agronholm. opened on Sep 30, 2014. ... To that end, would it be acceptable to introduce an option ...

Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories like PyPI (Python Package Index) have devised a new technique for hiding their malicious code from security scanners, manual reviews ...

According to ReversingLabs reverse engineer Karlo Zanki, this could be the first instance of a supply chain attack capitalizing on the direct execution capability of Python byte code (PYC) files. The ...

Compilers for languages intended to be machine-independent, such as Java, Python, or C#, translate the source code into byte code for a virtual machine, which is then run in an interpreter for the ...

Finally, we evaluate our approach on several Python programs. Experimental results show that the whole dynamic slicing for each subject program spends at most about 13 seconds on the average and costs ...