Unloading Sysmon Driver Anti-Monitoring

Sysmon is a tool that can be used to monitor system activity on Windows systems. It records various types of events, such as process creation, network connections, and registry changes, and stores them in the Windows Event Log. Security analysts can use this information to detect and investigate malicious activity on a system.

One way that malware can evade …

ExeStealth Packers

ExeStealth is a tool that encrypts files to avoid detection and hacking. Designed by WebToolMaster, this free software is simple to implement and one of the best anti-hacking tools on the market, which also makes it effective at hiding malware code in your system.

PEtite Packers

Petite is a free Win32 (Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista/7/etc) executable (EXE/DLL/etc) compressor. The compressed executables decompress themselves at run time and can be used just like the original non-compressed versions.

Petite also adds virus detection to the compressed executables; they will check themselves for infection every time they are executed.

FLIRT Signatures Evasion Anti-Disassembly

FLIRT Signature evasion is a technique used by malware to hide malicious code inside legitimate functions from known libraries. FLIRT (Fast Library Identification and Recognition Technology) is a database that contains signature patterns for identifying known functions from legitimate libraries.

Malware authors can abuse these signatures by modifying or adding specific bytes to the code, so that it appears …

DLL Proxying Process Manipulating

DLL proxying is a technique used by malware to evade detection and gain persistence on a system. It involves replacing a legitimate DLL with a malicious DLL that has the same exported functions and is named similarly to the legitimate DLL.

When a program attempts to load the legitimate DLL, it will instead load the malicious DLL, which acts …

Mark-Of-The-Web (MOTW) Bypass Antivirus/EDR Evasion

Mark-of-the-Web (MOTW) is a security feature originally introduced by Internet Explorer. When downloading a file, Internet Explorer creates an ADS named Zone.Identifier and adds a ZoneId to this stream to indicate from which zone the file originates. It is used on Windows OS to trigger a Windows Defender SmartScreen detection and raise an alert to the user about the file.

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Dirty Vanity Process Manipulating

Dirty Vanity is a process injection technique that exploits the Windows forking (process reflection and snapshotting) feature to inject code into a new process.

It uses the RtlCreateProcessReflection or NtCreateProcess[Ex] primitives, along with the PROCESS_VM_OPERATION, PROCESS_CREATE_THREAD, and PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE flags to reflect and execute code in a new process.

The technique also makes use of various methods, …

Avoiding Memory Scanners (Yara, Pe-sieve...) Others

Avoiding Memory Scanners is a technique that enables malware creators to bypass the detection of endpoint security software and reverse engineers by using memory scanning to locate shellcode and malware in Windows memory.

The technique involves understanding how memory scanners work and implementing a stable evasion method for each of the memory scanning tools, such as PE-sieve, MalMemDetect, Moneta, …

Hide Artifacts: Hidden Files and Directories Defense Evasion [Mitre]

Adversaries may set files and directories to be hidden to evade detection mechanisms. To prevent normal users from accidentally changing special files on a system, most operating systems have the concept of a ‘hidden’ file. These files don’t show up when a user browses the file system with a GUI or when using normal commands on the command line. Users …

Hide Artifacts: NTFS File Attributes Defense Evasion [Mitre]

Adversaries may use NTFS file attributes to hide their malicious data in order to evade detection. Every New Technology File System (NTFS) formatted partition contains a Master File Table (MFT) that maintains a record for every file/directory on the partition. Within MFT entries are file attributes, such as Extended Attributes (EA) and Data [known as Alternate Data Streams (ADSs) when …

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