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deobfuscate

To restore the source code of a program into a readable form. Deobfuscation reverses the "obfuscation," which was done to make the source code difficult to read by a human. See obfuscator.

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In this state, malicious JavaScript code changes shape of its own accord, deobfuscates the obfuscated string, and executes the exploit code.

Algorithm 1 verifies whether a web page includes an obfuscated string based on the word size, and it deobfuscates the obfuscated string.

JsSandbox: a framework for analyzing the behavior of malicious JavaScript code using internal function hooking

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