Malware Analysis and Detection Engineering: A Comprehensive Approach to Detect and Analyze Modern Malware

© Abhijit Mohanta, Anoop Saldanha 2020

A. Mohanta, A. SaldanhaMalware Analysis and Detection Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6193-4_19

19. Armoring and Evasion: The Anti-Techniques

Abhijit Mohanta¹  and Anoop Saldanha²

(1)

Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

(2)

Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

 

Malware authors and attackers don’t like what we analysts do, and to dissuade us, they are going to create obstacles otherwise known as armoring, to make the process of analyzing and detecting malware difficult. To this end, malware uses various armoring and evasion techniques. Armoring techniques are usually meant to hinder malware analysis, while evasion techniques are meant to evade ...