A chain of software made to build self-extractable archived software (with a focus on compression and/or on obfuscation). Packer prevent most of the static analysis techniques and force the reverser to depack dynamically the software before analyzing it.
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How can packers work despite mechanisms like Data Execution Prevention?
Modern operating systems have memory protections such as Data Execution Prevention, No Execute bit for Data, Read-only bit for text/code sections etc.
I don't understand how packers work when these memory protections are in place.
Where do the…
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Packers Material for learn how to unpack software
I would like to known where i can found guides to learn how to unpack packers like Themida, Armadillo, VMProtect, etc. I was searching challenges and guides but i could not found for packers, only other types of challenges. I have to learn how…
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How to protect a PE file?
What is the best way to protect a PE file (coded in c++) to make it a little hard for reversing, i mean using something like a Packer, but in a legit way, because most of packers are detected by antivirus (most of malwares are using packing…
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