[bowyakka]

So while I am sure the author checked this, it bears mentioning that disassembling CISC is more of a black art than RISC. You can feed any binary file into a disassembler and get x86 code out, even if that code is invalid.

For example here is a "program" except it's really a meme gif off my phone. https://imgur.com/gallery/hoDKeC9

[monocasa]

Yeah, but it's really clear that his stuff is real x86. lgdt followed by setting up all the data segment registers followed by a long jump to the code segment is about as x86 as you can get.

[umanwizard]

Are you experienced with reading x86 assembly?

It's crystal clear that the gif from your phone is gibberish (or extremely obfuscated), whereas the code from the article is normal-looking.

[bowyakka]

I am, I am not faulting the original author just pointing out you can get disassemblers to come up with x86.

From the comment right under the picture I took

> yeah, pretty typical function prolog, what's the question ?

Except we know it is not.

I am more saying to people be careful pushing any old binary blob through capstone without considering what it might produce, I get this at $DAYJOB where people disassemble VAX from things that are just data.