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Evaluating Grayware Characteristics and Risks

Table 6

File compression types by grayware in encyclopedia of Trend Micro.

IDCompressionDescription

1AspackA Win32 executable compressor capable of reducing file size and resisting reverse engineering
2FSGA file compressor especially suitable for small EXE or ASM files.
3PECompactA compressor for code, data, and import/export table with proprietary compression algorithm.
4PetiteA utility to compress and encrypt files, automatically expand files in memory when execution.
5SFXThe Self extractor (SFX) compresses a file and transports it to a remote system where decompression is performed.
6UPXUltimate Packer for eXecutables is an open-source packer performing in-place decompression.
7UpackUpack is a file packer based on LZMA compression.
8OtherThere are many other file compression packages such as Neolite, Nullsoft, PEPack, or RAR.