Anti-unpacker tricks - part one

2008-12-01

Peter Ferrie

Microsoft, USA
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Unpackers have been around for as long as packers themselves, but anti-unpacking tricks are a more recent development and have grown quickly both in number and, in some cases, complexity. Peter Ferrie describes a range of anti-unpacking tricks.


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