The evolution of self-defense technologies in malware
A. D. Shevchenko · 2007
First we must define the meaning of the term “malware self-defense, which is not as unequivocal as it may seem at first glance. When malware attacks antivirus programs, this is clearly a form of self defense. When malware covering its tracks, this is also in some sense a form of self defense, although less obviously so. An even less obvious form of self defense is the very evolution of malicious programs. After all, one of the motivations behind virus writers searching for new platforms that can be infected and for new system loopholes is to spread new viruses in the wild, into areas where no one yet bothers to look for malicious code as nothing has been found there before.