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It doesn't look like a .net assembly file. Calculate file entropy (ie using binwalk, rabin2 etc whichever tool you like) if it is high it is very likely it is packed, maybe try using DiE on the exe and see if it gives you the packer name, from there you can probably find some tools to get it to unpack and get at the contained .net assembly.