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#Packer
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Anatomy of a simple and popular packer
A walkthrough of a simple, widely used packer: its architecture, the PE stub and the shellcode stages that unpack the final payload.
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Some fun with a miner
A malware that deploys an XMRig miner and hides it behind legitimate Windows processes such as the Visual Basic compiler.
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