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		lpapez on Feb 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Fat Does a Fat Binary Need to Be? As explained by the author https://justine.lol/ape.html

Dylan16807 on Feb 11, 2021 [–]

In short: The start of the file is MZ but also a shell script. If you run it on linux it replaces its header with the ELF header, then execs itself.

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