Everything about UPX

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: UPXA 5-minute orientation
2. Read the landmark paper: Patching upX-treesCited 13 times
3. Go sideways: Self-extracting archiveA closely related topic
4. Go sideways: VmlinuxA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Patching upX-trees

  Sebastian Böcker, Andreas W. M. Dress, Mike A. Steel · 1999 · Annals of Combinatorics · 13 citations

• Structural and mechanistic insights into the dual-nuclease defense protein Upx as an anti-phage system

  Ruimin Zhou, Yingcan Liu, Qian Zhang · 2026 · Nature Communications · 3 citations

• Phage terminase recognition by the bacterial immune sensors Avs2 and Upx

  Simone A. Evans, Collin Chiu, Max E. Wilkinson · 2026 · Nature Communications · 3 citations

• Manual Unpacking Of Upx Packed Executable Using Ollydbg and Importrec

  Independent Security Researcher SecurityExploaded and M.Tech Student of ITM UNIVERSITY, Gurgaon (Haryana)INDIA 122001., Asha Devi, Gaurav Aggarwal · 2014 · IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering · 0 citations

• Do Denoising Autoencoders Improve Image-Based Static Malware Detection Under Synthetic Byte-Level Obfuscation and UPX Packing? A Controlled Evaluation

  Mesut Güven, Fatih Uysal · 2026 · Electronics · 0 citations

• Analisis Ketidaksesuaian Data Stock Opname Material pada Gudang Material di PT UPX

  Amiatul Wafa, Agung Syukriadinata · 2025 · JURNAL RISET DAN APLIKASI TEKNIK INDUSTRI · 0 citations

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