Hi Andrew, Just some comments about the "decompiled" code. Usually, it's easier to make it more readable as proper standard C code for the reader - using user defined structures, high-level functions (RtlUshortByteSwap), etc. I attached an example below for the "stage1" function as an example. I also name structure as "MYSTRUCT1" when I don't know what they do or "UCHAR u0C[0x10];" when I know the offset (0xC) but don't know what they do either, until I figure out and rename them later. It's quite a useful methodology when working on large project, that's what makes the difference between a human and Hex-Rays :-) typedef struct _DECRYPTDATA { UCHAR DecryptionRoutine[0x1f]; // Contains Stage1 code USHORT EncodedCode[0x900]; // Contains the "encoded" code to be executed } DECRYPTDATA, *PDECRYPTDATA; VOID DecodeData( ) { INT i; // PDECRYPTDATA Input points to the current address. Or the equivalent of &Stage1. for (i = 0; i < sizeof(Input->EncodedCode)); i++) { Input->EncodedCode[i] = RtlUshortByteSwap(Input->EncodedCode[i]); } // // What's following the decryption routine is the encoded code (Input->EncodedCode) // Soon to be decrypted, by the above routine. // _asm _emit 0xEE _asm _emit 0xD9 _asm _emit 0x74 _asm _emit 0xD9 // [...] } Matthieu Suiche On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Andrew Case &lt;atcuno(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: