# Dissection of Quarkslab's 2014 security challenge

DevFeed: [Dissection of Quarkslab's 2014 security challenge](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/dissection-of-quarkslab-s-2014-security-challenge-39696.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://doar-e.github.io/blog/2014/09/06/dissection-of-quarkslabs-2014-security-challenge/>)

Author: Axel "0vercl0k" Souchet

Published: 2014-09-07T03:37:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Diary of a reverse-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/diary-of-a-reverse-engineer.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [compilers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compilers.md>)

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## AI overview

A detailed walkthrough of solving Quarkslab's 2014 security challenge, including analysis of an obfuscated Python one-liner and the techniques used to understand it.

## Source excerpt

Introduction As the blog was a bit silent for quite some time, I figured it would be cool to put together a post ; so here it is folks, dig in! The French company Quarkslab recently released a security challenge to win a free entrance to attend the upcoming HITBSecConf conference ...