Persistence

2024-08-06

Persistence in the context of malware refers to the ability of malicious code to survive after the exploited component is terminated or the system is ...

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Process Injection

2024-08-06

Process Injection is a method of executing arbitrary code into the address space of a separate running process.

Process Injection can be carried out ...

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antivirus

2024-08-05

Antivirus software (AV) or anti-malware are computer programs used to prevent, detect, and remove malware.

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Behavior-based Detection

2024-08-05

Once malware is running, security software will continue to look for suspicious behavior emitted by running processes.

For example, if a notepad.exe ...

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CreateFile

2024-08-05

CreateFile() is a WinAPI macro (chooses CreateFileA or CreateFileW as appropriate) that creates a new file or opens an existing file. On success, a ...

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Dynamic Link Library

2024-08-05 pe windows

A dynamic-link library (DLL) is a shared library in the Microsoft Windows operating system. This is similar to Shared Object (.so files) on *nix ...

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Hashing Detection

2024-08-05

Hashing detections are done by saving file hashes of known to be malicious files and comparing them with samples to be analyzed. If the file hashes ...

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malware analysis

2024-08-05

Malware Analysis is the process of understanding the behavior and purpose of a malware sample.

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obfuscation

2024-08-05

Similar to encryption, obfuscation techniques can protect sensitive data from being read. Obfuscation is often deployed as a defense against reverse ...

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Payload Encryption

2024-08-05

Payloads are often encrypted within code to make it more difficult for security softare to detect the malicious activity of the file. Payload ...

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