Understand Encryption in Malware: AES (Lu0Bot Example)

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is a symmetric encryption algorithm. It’s a block cipher, which means it operates on fixed block sizes of 128, 192 or 256 bits. Malware often uses AES to encrypt traffic, and we’ll explore an example of this today.

This article is part of our series about malware encryption.

In the previous article, we covered encryption basics and looked at examples of XOR, which is a stream cipher. Today, we’ll focus on AES, which is a …

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