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_7

7. Malware Packers

Abhijit Mohanta¹  and Anoop Saldanha²

(1)

Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

(2)

Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

 

An attacker avoids delivering a raw version of the malware to the victim. One of the good reasons is that anti-malware products can easily detect it as malicious by using static signatures. Another factor is the raw piece of malware can be larger and might take a longer time to download on a victim’s machine, making size reduction important.

To protect against that, before delivering the malware, the attacker encrypts ...