Bypassing antivirus detection: old-school malware, new tricks. (arXiv:2305.04149v1 [cs.CR])

Being on a mushrooming spree since at least 2013, malware can take a large
toll on any system. In a perpetual cat-and-mouse chase with defenders, malware
writers constantly conjure new methods to hide their code so as to evade
detection by security products. In this context, focusing on the MS Windows
platform, this work contributes a comprehensive empirical evaluation regarding
the detection capacity of popular, off-the-shelf antivirus and endpoint
detection and response engines when facing legacy malware obfuscated via more …

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