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I thought that wget is open source. I disassembled their .exe file and saw a pretty annoying packer, which I'll put here part of it to see if you are familiar with it.

I see that the wget's open source is online so I don't get it why there is such a complicated packer?

the packer assembly code is here.

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The primary purpose of a packer is to pack, to make the executable smaller, which is a quite legitimate thing for the authors of wget to do. The packer in question appears to be UPX, which is a standard open-source packer. There are packers which have obfuscation as a goal, but vanilla UPX is not one of them. – bobince Feb 18 '12 at 12:33
unpack with upx -d ;) – freddyb Feb 18 '12 at 21:32

closed as off topic by Rory Alsop♦ Feb 18 '12 at 10:16

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