{"id":9457,"date":"2024-09-07T22:32:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=9457"},"modified":"2024-09-07T22:32:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:32:22","slug":"this-post-is-totally-iconic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/07\/this-post-is-totally-iconic\/","title":{"rendered":"This post is totally Iconic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over 6 years ago I decided to pursue yet another silly idea: extract all the unique .ico files from PE resources from as many samples as I can. This exercise yielded ~450K unique .ico files. If I remember correctly, the original idea was that I may somehow leverage them in my research &amp; detection efforts (yara, malware family clustering, etc.), but when I came across this old, sad folder today it quickly dawned on me that I am quite good at extracting meaningful data, but even better at forgetting about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calculating the number of all .ico files I gathered in that folder quickly lead me to an astonishing discovery: the total number of all files is very close to a square root of (NUMBER_OF_THE_BEAST+1). Using a quick &amp; dirty Python script I borrowed from StackOverflow I have created a PNG file that exposes the results of this old work to the world. Using a sophisticated algorithm that reads the .ico file, resamples it to 16&#215;16 square and appends it to the final picture, I was able to build this final, iconic, 200MB in size, PNG file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hexacorn.com\/d\/iconic.png\">iconic.png<\/a> (667 x 667)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not claim any copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 6 years ago I decided to pursue yet another silly idea: extract all the unique .ico files from PE resources from as many samples as I can. This exercise yielded ~450K unique .ico files. If I remember correctly, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/07\/this-post-is-totally-iconic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9459,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions\/9459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}