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Malware Development for Ethical Hackers - Second Edition
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Malware Development for Ethical Hackers - Second Edition

by Zhassulan Zhussupov
August 2026
Intermediate
258 pages
5h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Malware Development for Ethical Hackers - Second Edition

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Bypass Windows OS Security and Cat and Mouse Game for Windows

This chapter explores the offensive techniques used to bypass modern Windows defenses such as Windows Defender, AMSI, UAC, and EDR. Readers will implement and analyze practical bypass methods including string and function obfuscation, environmental awareness, API unhooking, bypass UAC, and AMSI patching. Each technique is contextualized with real malware case studies to illustrate its use in the wild and its forensic artifacts.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Anti-debugging tricks
  • Anti-virtual machine tricks
  • Navigating the antivirus labyrinth: Game of cat and mouse
  • Advanced evasion techniques

Anti-debugging tricks

This section demonstrates how a ...

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ISBN: 9781807427597