How Hackers Use Binary Padding to Outsmart Sandboxes and Infiltrate Your Systems

What is binary padding? How can you detect against threats using junk data in various ways to evade defensive systems and sandboxes? Read on to learn more.

Binary padding is the process of adding extra or junk data to a portable executable (PE) file that, while not changing the behavior of the binary, changes certain characteristics that can help with either obfuscating relevant code or defeating sandboxing solutions and detections. 

This technique is not novel. It has been employed in …

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