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🚨 Ever tangled with virtual machine-based code protection? 🚨

In 2020, I wrote a virtual machine deobfuscator for a crack me challenge. I've learned a lot doing that challenge and wrote a 2-part series for it:

https://malwareandstuff.com/taming-virtual-machine-based-code-protection-1/

https://malwareandstuff.com/taming-virtual-machine-based-code-protection-2/

🔍 #ReverseEngineering #MalwareAnalysis #windows #idapro #deobfuscation

Taming Virtual Machine Based Code Protection – 1

Overcoming obfuscation in binaries has always been an interesting topic for me, especially in combination with malware. Over the last weeks I’ve been playing around with Virtualised Code Prot…

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