Dissecting Windows Malware Series – Understanding Cryptography and Data Encoding – Part 3

Heard of AES? No? Well, alright then. Perhaps about Base64 Encoding??? XOR Encoding? Not that either?

Congratulations, you are about to learn about 3 core ways malware use data encoding to their advantage!

In the previous article https://8ksec.io/dissecting-windows-malware-series-process-injections-part-2/, we introduced the mechanism of Process Injection that malware use to achieve Stealth and Evasion. We saw direct implementation of:

• Process Injection

• Process Hollowing

And the use of other interesting Stealth associated mechanism.

So, now you are asking, what’s next?

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