You do not understand how your program really works until it has been exploited. We
believe that computer scientists and software engineers should regard the activity of modern …

… on the exposed weird machine; this weird machine may serve as a … to eliminate the weird
machine. LangSec facilitates the … [18] created a taxonomy of LangSec anti-patterns and used it …

… RELATED WORK The concept of a weird machine that will be discussed in this paper has
… The historical pattern has been the publication of a given mitigation, followed by methods to …

… The Weird Machine concept is an increasingly popular … can be thought of as pattern matching
problem inside the state … 𝑠𝑚0..𝑛 or a more complex pattern that is known to be malicious. …

… The Weird Machine concept is an increasingly popular model for … patterns. When the WG
code attempts to repeatedly mistrain a certain branch, the BPU quickly learns this pattern and …

… ABI structures has given rise to a number of design patterns [7]. Not surprisingly, the most …
In order to understand the ELF metadata-driven weird machine present in Linux’s RTLD we …

… to eliminate the weird machine. LangSec facilitates the con… [18] created a taxonomy of
LangSec anti-patterns and used it … as precursors to the weird machine. Our work is motivated by …

… • We present a weird machine packer that uses Flexo to obfuscate UPX’s [88] unpacking
process. Our packer encrypts the packed executable, which a µWM later decrypts at runtime. …

… The historical pattern has been to publish the mitigation, followed by methods to bypass
the … More generally, we can discern three general classes of weird machine states: human …

… We propose the Transient WM, a weird machine that … to the TSX WM, our weird machine
begins execution when the CPU is … By repeating this pattern, we can create OR gates (Listing 2) …