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fixtures: add function to resolve sample shortened name by MD5

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#1,743 opened on Aug 21, 2023

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          Ok so it looks like we need the opposite of `fixtures.get_sample_md5_by_name` e.g. `fixtures.get_sample_short_name_by_md5` or the like. Let's leave this code as-is for now and I'll open a separate issue to update the fixtures.

Originally posted by @mike-hunhoff in https://github.com/mandiant/capa/pull/1727#discussion_r1300208729

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Implement a new function get sample short name by md5 that returns the shortened sample name given an MD5 hash, mirroring the existing get sample md5 by name function.
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