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| Confidence | Program | Detection | Match Type | Support
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|---|
| 100%
| dexvert
| Mailbox/MIME Entity (archive/mbox)
| magic
| Supported |
| 66%
| dexvert
| Compress Compressed (Unix) (archive/compress)
| ext
| Supported |
| 66%
| dexvert
| InstallShield Z Archive (archive/installShieldZ)
| ext
| Supported |
| 66%
| dexvert
| Pack Compressed (archive/pack)
| ext
| Supported |
| 66%
| dexvert
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| ext
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| dexvert
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| perlTextCheck
| Likely Text (Perl)
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