Know Your Malware Part Two – Hacky Obfuscation Techniques

In the first post in this series, we covered common PHP encoding techniques and how they’re used by malware to hide from security analysts and scanners. In today’s post, we’re going to dive a little bit deeper into other obfuscation techniques that make use of other features available in PHP.

Obfuscation Redux

In the first post in this series, we defined Obfuscation as the process of concealing the purpose or functionality of code or data so that it evades …

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