Unpacker
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who, or that which, unpacks.
"One great advantage of professional unpacking is that the unpackers take away all the wrapping and cartons […]"
- 2 A software program that decompresses code or data.
"All packed malware consists of the unpacker code and packed data, which typically look like random data. The benefit of packed malware, from a malicious author's point of view, is that it cannot be analyzed until it is properly unpacked."
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More examples"One great advantage of professional unpacking is that the unpackers take away all the wrapping and cartons […]"
Etymology
From unpack + -er.
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