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Signatures

External signatures File extension: ico
Internal signatures
Name Icon file format
Description Header: (00000100) followed by number of images used in file. For purposes of this signature, range of limited to 1-9 - the largest number of images that was observed in any Icon file used for testing was 8. Header sequence followed by image directory, then sequence (000028000000{2}0000{2}00000100[01:20]0000000000)
Byte sequences
Position type Absolute from BOF
Offset 0
Byte order  
Value 00000100[01:09]00{3}00[00:01]00{1}00{3}00*000028000000{2}0000{2}00000100[01:20]0000000000
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