The Art of Obfuscation: Evading Static Malware Detection

Obfuscation is a technique that makes malware harder to detect and analyze by hiding its code and data. It can use encryption, compression, encoding to conceal the malicious behavior of the malware. Obfuscation can help malware evade static analysis by antivirus software and security solutions.

Traditionally we have seen threat actors using different encoders,custom separators and encryption to evade static detection by AV/EDR’s. In this blog i am gonna discuss few of the newly discover/observed techniques used by threat actors …

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