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Over the last quarter, we’ve seen an increase in malware using packers, crypters, and protectors—all methods used to obfuscate malicious code from systems or programs attempting to identify it. These packers make it very hard, or next to impossible to perform static analysis. The growing number of malware authors using these protective packers has triggered […]

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Techniques used by malware developers to evade detection by security software have changed drastically in recent years. Encryption, packers, wrappers, and other methods were effective for various lengths of time. But eventually antimalware programs gained detection techniques to combat these steps.Malware authors next started frequently changing code and other data; now malware binaries are modified […]

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Recently we experimented with our generic unpacking heuristics. Our goal was to unpack a potentially malicious binary and dump the executable from memory to a file. During our experiments we saw a few unknown packers from which we successfully unpacked the binary; with these, however, we dumped the memory but we missed some code in […]

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