papaw vs Silent_Packer
papaw
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| Figure | papaw | Silent_Packer |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Executable Packers | 7.9 (#8) | 6.7 (#23) |
| Intended use | The README describes papaw as designed for portability across devices and says it avoids machine-specific assembly and newer system calls such as fexecve(). | The README says the code and information are intended for professional or educational purposes. |
| License | The project is released as free and unencumbered software under the MIT license. | The project is licensed under GNU AGPLv3. |
| Purpose | papaw is a permissively licensed packer for executables with statically linked third-party components, intended for devices with limited disk space. | Silent_Packer is an ELF/PE binary packer written in pure C that can obfuscate binaries and supports PIE binaries. |
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In their own words
papaw
papaw is a Linux executable packer for programs that include statically linked third-party components, aimed at devices with limited disk space. It compresses executables and bundles them with a decompressor of about 15–40 KB. Supported algorithms are LZMA2, LZMA1, Zstandard and Deflate, and packed executables can replace themselves on disk when run. The project is free and unencumbered software under the MIT license, and can be self-hosted. It uses Meson and can be included as a Meson subproject; the README recommends `custom_target()` for running `papawify`. Prebuilt static binaries are available through GitHub releases, with example assets for aarch64, arm, armeb, i386, mips, mipsel and x86_64. To support portability, the project avoids machine-specific assembly and newer system calls such as `fexecve()`. Optional very basic anti-debugging protection is intended to discourage trivial reverse-engineering techniques. The payload is extracted to a temporary file; when run as root, papaw mounts a tmpfs filesystem and lazily unmounts it before extraction.
Silent_Packer
Silent_Packer has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.