Pith Number

pith:AUXX3TA4

pith:2022:AUXX3TA4MQNERBM65GASVY6BCE

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Use of Cryptography in Malware Obfuscation

Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Dali Kaafar, Daniel Coscia, Giang Nguyen, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Muhammad Ikram, Sean Lamont

arxiv:2212.04008 v3 · 2022-12-07 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AUXX3TA4MQNERBM65GASVY6BCE}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T06:48:46.339381Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

052f7dcc1c641a48859ee9812ae3c11125c175a1c5c65dd4d19b43f36814ad62

Aliases

arxiv: 2212.04008 · arxiv_version: 2212.04008v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.04008 · pith_short_12: AUXX3TA4MQNE · pith_short_16: AUXX3TA4MQNERBM6 · pith_short_8: AUXX3TA4

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AUXX3TA4MQNERBM65GASVY6BCE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 052f7dcc1c641a48859ee9812ae3c11125c175a1c5c65dd4d19b43f36814ad62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b1af1bd48fb97e7e7127abdb203c9e960d8d4ab40da43a26fc5351948a6f9f00",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2022-12-07T23:51:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7330fa1b6adf83a4966244737336ab0d6b8f1d569b4fd4b3d2b12c18b52dbc9e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2212.04008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}