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17. Debugging Tricks for Unpacking Malware

Abhijit Mohanta1  and Anoop Saldanha2
(1)
Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
(2)
Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
 

In Chapter 7, we spoke about packers and how malware author uses them to hide his real malware payload by obfuscating it and generating a new packed malware executable/binary that contains within the original malware payload but now in obfuscated form. This packed binary is created by passing a malicious payload to a packer program. We also saw that static string analysis of packed samples ...

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