jump instruction in English

noun
1
an instruction in a computer program that causes processing to move to a different place in the program sequence.
I found a jump instruction that jumped to the middle of another instruction.

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1. If a jump instruction was executed, the program counter will be modified to contain the address of the instruction that was jumped to and program execution continues normally.

2. To throw the disassembly off, the garbage data may be crafted so that it matches a valid instruction, thus beating a heuristic that validates the instruction after the jump instruction.