Hey guys can someone help me to understand this ...

9\x96\x16\x90 \xAF\x7FAQ\x8C\xD6O)\xA1\x80\xFF\x193K\xF4\xF9v3G\x81\xA6T\x99\xADa\x94\xE5

One of the friend got a mail saying send solution to that particular one. That looks like encoded some shit.. :/ TIA

Accidently ++ whilst trying to copy the line, but can’t copy in devRant.

I know \xHH is used to print characters with HH being their ASCII value in hexadecimal, in the same way \n does a newline. But I've personally never seen it with more than two characters after the x, and definitely not with anything other than a valid hex value

@infernalempress agree, tried it, I got some gibberish thing. It was something like (AbC.... )\123.. * ...

Agree this is purely hex., is something else.. :|

Its python byte representation in hex, could be that some bytes are automatically got converted to ascii chars

Are they base64'd?

Idk. I'm passing out 🙁

@TheCPPanda is right, \xXX means interpret this as the byte 0xXX and the rest were interpreted as printable in ASCII encoding and so were printed as the character they represent.

@kenogo is right

So far this is what I got.. :(
Nah, it is not base64! @Root

I'm pretty I'm missing something here... :|

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base64? ascii values?

@kenogo
You mean the question..? Or the pic I posted?

@Gregozor2121
Doesn't look like base64; not ASCII as well :(

@kenogo
I just used the below code

It looks like shellcode. Are they hex encoded assembly instructions?

@Gogeta70 not sure. Still couldn't find it. FML

@kenogo Ah, I didn't catch the non-hex characters earlier. Very odd. \x* Notation usually refers to hex or octal byte values...