Detection of packed malware
Dhruwajita Devi, Sukumar Nandi · 2012
Packing is the most popular obfuscation technique used by malware writers' community in present scenario. The traditional signature-based anti-virus software had played a major role in malware detection, until the dawn of the trend of packed malware. Hence to evade detection of the malwares, a malicious writer relies on packers' softwares; which transforms the binary appearance of the programs without affecting its execution semantics. Therefore the biggest challenge today for malware detection techniques is to figure out whether a given binary is packed or not.