🔒 How do i decompile a exe file

[merry tree]

Hello my brain is too mush to understand how to do that

[echo topaz]

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[echo yacht]

decompile, as in .exe back to say C source code? it's really really hard, as a .exe only contains binary machine instructions; it's probably closer to assembly than any other higher level programming language

[merry tree]

not exactly source code

[echo yacht]

maybe you're looking for a disassembler then? (.exe -> assembly)

[merry tree]

the file in itself literaly just prints like 9 words but it's a challange my friend did for me to solve and i need to decompile the file

he literaly told me that and idk how to do it

[tender wolf]

You know downloading strange exe files is a bad practice?

[merry tree]

nah it's a challange he does for his discord. he likes to hide specific words like an enigma

like he sends out a random encoded base 64 message every so often and that leads you to like a mega download then an immage then you have to inspect the immage in notepad

find a base 32 code or a pastebin

go to like one of his random websites and find it in inspect element

etc

till you find the word

ofc the winner gets something but everyone just gave up on this one

[echo yacht]

doesn't really matter what the file is, fact is that exe to assembly might be the best you can do
I'm also not sure what this has to do with python

[merry tree]

the file is written in python

and i need to decompile it

to get like

to the next thing

[echo yacht]

there's probably a tool that does that, assuming your friend used pyinstaller or something
not sure what you'd do if they used nuitka

[merry tree]

i literaly don't know what he used or anything

if you want i could sent you the file to inspect it

up to you

[echo yacht]

so just trial then error then? the other option is to forget about it

[echo yacht]

I'm not really interested tbh

[merry tree]

wdym by trial and error?

[merry tree]

?

[echo yacht]

wdym by trial and error?
try decompiling it with a tool that can decompile something made with pyinstaller, if that doesn't work then try something else, etc.
?
don't send me the file, I'm not interested enough to inspect it myself

[merry tree]

ah

ok

[echo topaz]

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