Comparative Analysis of Anti-Virus Evasion Malware Creator Tools of Kali Linux, with Proposed Model for Obfuscation
Anas Khalid Kayani, Muhammad Qasim Saeed · 2021
Cyber security is one of the most important aspect for any organization as well as an individual against cyber threats which may leads to the destruction of their assets, personal information, and financial loss. Malwares are one of the most advanced and widely used software in this domain. Malware researchers are always looking forward for the ways to make their malicious file as legitimate and stealthy as possible. This study is highlighting the tools developed for the malware generation using the advance penetration testing operating system ‘Kali Linux’. There are tools available which according to their writers “generates stealthy malware that has a capability to evade anti-viruses and hiding its capability to perform operations”. We proposed a methodology to obfuscate the capabilities of software. The techniques used in the proposed methodology are packing and signing of an executable simultaneously, for packing (or compression) we used Lempel-Ziv and Huffman coding then the executable is signed by replicating the certificate of a legitimate website giving us the promising results.