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1. Awesome Executable Packing

📚 Literature / Documentation

• 🌎 Armouring the ELF: Binary encryption on the UNIX platform

• 🌎 Learn symbolic execution and angr

• 📊 LIEF: Library to instrument executable formats

• 🌎 The malware analyst's guide to aPLib decompression

• 📌 Packers/Protectors for Linux

• 📊 Packing-box: Playing with executable packing

• 📊 Runtime packers testing experiences

• 📗 Surreptitious software: Obfuscation, watermarking, and tamperproofing for software protection

• 📊 TitanMist: Your first step to reversing nirvana

• 🌎 YARA - The pattern matching swiss knife for malware researchers.

📚 Literature / Scientific Research

• 📰 Adversarial attacks against Windows PE malware detection: A survey of the state-of-the-art (May 2023) ⭐

• 📓 Adversarially robust assembly language model for packed executables detection (November 2025) ⭐

• 📰 API-MalDetect: Automated malware detection framework for windows based on API calls and deep learning techniques (September 2023) ⭐

• 📄 Assessing the impact of packing on machine learning-based malware detection and classification systems (September 2025) ⭐

• 📰 Auditing static machine learning anti-Malware tools against metamorphic attacks (March 2021) ⭐

• 📰 Benchmark for filter methods for feature selection in high-dimensional classification data (March 2020) ⭐

• 📰 Beyond the sandbox: Leveraging symbolic execution for evasive malware classification (February 2025) ⭐

• 📓 BODMAS: An open dataset for learning based temporal analysis of PE malware (May 2021) ⭐

• 🎓 Building a smart and automated tool for packed malware detections using machine learning (June 2020)

• 🎓 Building high-quality datasets of packed executables - Enhancing static detection models via curated packed binary datasets (August 2025) ⭐

• 📰 Bypassing heaven’s gate technique using black-box testing (November 2023) ⭐

• 📓 BYTEWEIGHT: Learning to recognize functions in binary code (August 2014)

• 📰 Classification of malware by using structural entropy on convolutional neural networks (April 2018)

• 🎓 Code obfuscation techniques for software protection (April 2012)

• 🎓 Computational-intelligence techniques for malware generation (October 2015)

• 📰 Construction and evaluation of the new heuristic malware detection mechanism based on executable files static analysis (August 2018)

• 📓 Cryptographic function detection in obfuscated binaries via bit-precise symbolic loop mapping (May 2017)

• 📄 Decoding the secrets of machine learning in malware classification: A deep dive into datasets, feature extraction, and model performance (November 2023) ⭐

• 📕 Deobfuscation of virtualization-obfuscated code through symbolic execution and compilation optimization (April 2018)

• 📓 Deobfuscation of virtualization-obfuscated software: A semantics-based approach (October 2011)

• 🎓 Design and implementation of a modular executable packer - Experimenting with packing techniques and static detection (June 2025) ⭐

• 📓 Detecting obfuscated viruses using cosine similarity analysis (March 2007)

• 📰 Detecting packed executables based on raw binary data (June 2010)

• 📰 Efficient automatic original entry point detection (January 2019)

• 📓 EMBER2024 - A benchmark dataset for holistic evaluation of malware classifiers (August 2025) ⭐

• 📰 Enhanced metamorphic techniques-A case study against havex malware (August 2021) ⭐

• 📰 An entropy-based distance measure for analyzing and detecting metamorphic malware (June 2018)

• 📓 Entropy-driven visualization in gview: Unveiling the unknown in binary file formats (September 2024) ⭐

• 📰 A framework for metamorphic malware analysis and real-time detection (February 2015)

• 📰 G3MD: Mining frequent opcode sub-graphs for metamorphic malware detection of existing families (December 2018)

• 📓 GUARD: Generic API de-obfuscation and obfuscated malware unpacking with sIAT (March 2025) ⭐

• 📰 Hunting for metamorphic engines (November 2006)

• 📗 Longitudinal study of the prevalence of malware evasive techniques (December 2021) ⭐

• 📰 The MALICIA dataset: Identification and analysis of drive-by download operations (February 2015)

• 📕 Measuring and defeating anti-instrumentation-equipped malware (June 2017)

• 📰 Metamorphic malware detection based on support vector machine classification of malware sub-signatures (September 2016)

• 📰 Metamorphic malware identification using engine-specific patterns based on co-opcode graphs (August 2020) ⭐

• 📰 Mimicking anti-viruses with machine learning and entropy profiles (2019-05-21)

• 📓 Modern Linux malware exposed (June 2018)

• 📰 A novel framework for image-based malware detection with a deep neural network (October 2021) ⭐

• 📰 On the (im)possibility of obfuscating programs (2) (April 2012)

• 📓 On the feasibility of malware unpacking via hardware-assisted loop profiling (August 2023) ⭐

• 📰 Performance evaluation of filter-based feature selection techniques in classifying portable executable files (January 2018) ⭐

• 📓 Program obfuscation by strong cryptography (February 2010)

• 📰 Replacement attacks against VM-protected applications (September 2012)

• 📰 Resurrecting anti-virtualization and anti-debugging: Unhooking your hooks (March 2021) ⭐

• 📰 Singular value decomposition and metamorphic detection (November 2015)

• 📰 SMASH: A malware detection method based on multi-feature ensemble learning (August 2019)

• 📰 Software protection through anti-debugging (May 2007)

• 📰 Structural analysis of binary executable headers for malware detection optimization (May 2017)

• 📰 Structural entropy and metamorphic malware (November 2013)

• 📰 A survey on adversarial attacks for malware analysis (December 2024) ⭐

• 📰 A survey on automated dynamic malware-analysis techniques and tools (March 2008)

• 📰 A systematical and longitudinal study of evasive behaviors in windows malware (February 2022) ⭐

• 📓 Understanding Linux malware (May 2018)

• 📰 Watermarking, tamper-proofing, and obfuscation - Tools for software protection (August 2002)

• 📰 Wavelet decomposition of software entropy reveals symptoms of malicious code (December 2016)

• 📓 Xunpack: Cross-Architecture unpacking for Linux IoT malware (October 2023) ⭐

📑 Datasets / Scientific Research

• Ember2024 (⭐91) - Update to the EMBER2017 and EMBER2018 datasets.

📦 Packers / After 2010

• Backpack (⭐19)

• ELF-Encrypter - Collection of programs to encrypt ELF binaries using various algorithms.

• ELF-Packer (⭐59) - Simple Polymorphic x86_64 Runtime Code Segment Cryptor.

• ELFkickers (⭐614) - A collection of programs that access and manipulate ELF files.

• EXE Bundle - Bundles application files into a single PE32 file.

• EXE Stealth - Anti-cracking protection and licensing tool for PE files featuring compression and encryption polymorphic technology.

• oplzkwp (⭐70) - Library for ELF obfuscation ; it uses PRESENT and blake244 to encrypt your payload on the fly.

• pocrypt (⭐11) - Naive Proof of Concept Crypter for GNU/Linux ELF64.

• ps2-packer (⭐80) - Create packed ELF files to run on the PS2.

• sherlocked (⭐105)

• XyrisPack (⭐11)

📦 Packers / Between 2000 and 2010

• cryptelf - Modifies binary by appending code to handle runtime decryption, changing the program EP and changing the .note segment to LOAD ; encrypts the .text section by XORing its bytes with a key.

🔧 Tools / Before 2000

• PANDI (⭐3) - Dynamic packing detection solution built on top of PANDA.

2. Awesome Rust

Applications / Operating systems

• hexagonal-sun/moss-kernel (⭐1.8k) - A Unix-like, Linux-compatible kernel written in Rust and Aarch64 assembly.

3. Awesome Selfhosted

Software / Software Development - IDE & Tools

• RapidForge - Lightweight platform for building webhooks, scheduled tasks and pages. Implement your logic with Bash or Lua. (Source Code (⭐22)) Apache-2.0 Go/Nodejs

4. Awesome Iot

Software / Libraries and Tools

• ble-scale-sync (⭐4) - Cross-platform Node.js CLI that reads BLE smart scales (23 brands), calculates body composition, and exports to Garmin Connect, MQTT, InfluxDB, Webhook, and Ntfy. Runs on Raspberry Pi, Linux, macOS, and Windows.

5. Awesome Claude Code

Agent Skills 🤖 / General

• AgentSys (⭐379) by avifenesh - Workflow automation system for Claude with a group of useful plugins, agents, and skills. Automates task-to-production workflows, PR management, code cleanup, performance investigation, drift detection, and multi-agent code review. Includes agnix (⭐30) for linting agent configurations. Built on thousands of lines of code with thousands of tests. Uses deterministic detection (regex, AST) with LLM judgment for efficiency. Used on many production systems.

Tooling 🧰 / Orchestrators

• Auto-Claude (⭐12k) by AndyMik90 - Autonomous multi-agent coding framework for Claude Code (Claude Agent SDK) that integrates the full SDLC - "plans, builds, and validates software for you". Features a slick kanban-style UI and a well-designed but not over-engineered agent orchestration system.

6. Awesome Zig

Multimedia & Graphics / Graphics Library

• zsdl3 (⭐12) - SDL3 bindings for Zig.

7. Awesome V

Scientific computing

• vstats (⭐2) - A dependency-free Linear Algebra, Statistics, and Machine Learning library written from scratch in V.

8. Awesome Cl

Showcase

• 🔥 lisp-screenshots.org

• awesome-lisp-companies (⭐638)

• cl-software (⭐377)

9. Awesome Integration

Projects / API Management

• Gravitee.io API Management (⭐380) (⭐379) - A lightweight, open-source platform offering flexible API governance, robust security, and straightforward configuration.

Projects / API Documentation

• Zudoku (⭐455) (⭐447) - A customizable framework built on OpenAPI, focused on delivering exceptional developer experiences through quality documentation.

Projects / API Gateway

• Envoy Gateway (⭐2.5k) (⭐2.5k) - CNCF Envoy-based gateway with Gateway API, mTLS, JWT, and other built-ins.

• Gloo Edge (⭐150) (⭐149) - An Envoy Proxy–based gateway offering advanced traffic control, enhanced security, and observability for microservices ecosystems.

Projects / Data Mapping Solution

• JSLT (⭐689) (⭐685) - Powerful JSON query and transformation language inspired by jq and XPath, designed for rapid and flexible data manipulation.

Projects / Message Broker

• Apache Artemis (⭐998) (⭐1k) - A multi-protocol message broker, supporting various industry standard protocols such as AMQP 1.0, MQTT 3.1.1, MQTT 5, and STOMP.

Projects / Self-Service Integration

• n8n (⭐174k) (⭐174k) - Open-source workflow automation tool with 400+ connectors, giving you full control over your data and integrations.

Resources / Data Formats

• YAML (⭐452) (⭐453) - A human-friendly and easy-to-read data serialization format that is widely used for configuration files and data exchange. It supports rich data types and is compatible with most programming languages.

10. Awesome Mac

Terminal Apps / Databases

• Command Book - A terminal companion for long-running terminal commands (freemium)

11. Awesome Qr Code

Apps / Readers

• Web App (⭐287) - A progressive web application to scan QR codes.

12. Awesome Analytics

Privacy focused analytics

• Clickport - Privacy-first web analytics without cookies. GDPR compliant, EU-hosted, with session tracking, goals, and real-time dashboard. © SaaS EU

13. Awesome Neovim

AI / Diagnostics

• nickjvandyke/opencode.nvim (⭐2.5k) - OpenCode AI assistant integration.

Programming Languages Support / Markdown and LaTeX

• Prgebish/sigil.nvim (⭐23) - Implementation of Emacs' prettify-symbols-mode to visually replace text patterns with Unicode symbols while editing LaTeX and Typst files.

Buffers / Assembly

• TheLazyCat00/workspaces-nvim (⭐3) - Pin files to specific keys within a project workspace, giving you quick access to your most important files.

Terminal Integration / CSV Files

• TheLazyCat00/runner-nvim (⭐3) - Run commands in a floating terminal and keep track of the last command executed per CWD, making it easy to repeat build or test commands.

Git / Quickfix

• YouSame2/inlinediff-nvim (⭐17) - Provides a better inline Git diff view, meant to be used alongside your favorite Git plugin (e.g. gitsigns).

14. Awesome Sysadmin

Software / Deployment Automation

• FaynoSync - Self-hosted Dynamic Update Server with statistics, supporting multiple updaters. Flexible features for seamless app updates and insights. (Source Code (⭐144), Clients (⭐3)) Apache-2.0 Docker/Go

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