IsDebugged Flag

Created the Monday 18 March 2019. Updated 1 year ago.

While a process is running, the location of the PEB can be referenced by the location fs:[30h]. For anti-debugging, malware will use that location to check the BeingDebugged flag, which indicates whether the specified process is being debugged.


Technique Identifiers

U0113 B0001.019


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