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Metasploit
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Metasploit

by David Kennedy, Jim O'Gorman, Devon Kearns, Mati Aharoni
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
9h 1m
English
No Starch Press
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Packers

Packers are tools that compress an executable and combine it with decompression code. When this new executable is run, the decompression code re-creates the original executable from the compressed code before executing it. This usually happens transparently so the compressed executable can be used in exactly the same way as the original. The result of the packing process is a smaller executable that retains all the functionality of the original.

As with msfencode, packers change the structure of an executable. However, unlike the msfencode encoding process, which often increases the size of an executable, a carefully chosen packer will use various algorithms to both compress and encrypt an executable. Next, we use the popular UPX packer ...

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