This chapter discusses the anti-reversing techniques, which include concept of disassembly, anti debugging, and virtual machine detection. This is followed by a discussion on the packers and their protection mechanism. Packers, which disassemble the binaries, also prevent reverse engineering of software. The chapter concludes with the unpacking mechanisms. Some of these sections also appeared in the book titled "Vulnerability Analysis and Defense for the Internet".
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Singh, A. (2009). Fundamental of Reverse Engineering. In: Identifying Malicious Code Through Reverse Engineering. Advances in Information Security, vol 44. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89468-3_5
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