Anti-unpacker tricks – part five

2009-04-01

Peter Ferrie

Microsoft, USA

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

New anti-unpacking tricks continue to be developed as the older ones are constantly being defeated. In this series of articles Peter Ferrie describes some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. This month's article concentrates on anti‑debugging tricks that target the OllyDbg debugger.

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