Bypassing Windows Defences: Multi-Layer Generic Obfuscation Technique for Malware

Abstract

Recent studies show that the malware are increasing day by day with the ability to leak your privacy and to harm your computers and networks. These malware are mostly detected by the Anti-Viruses but to show that malware can easily hide themselves from the Anti-Viruses (AVs), different obfuscation techniques are discussed and compared. In this thesis, novel obfuscation technique is proposed and implemented which can easily bypass Anti-Virus detection and can obfuscate the source code of program before compilation instead of a pre compiled executable. In this way, malware analyst will find it very difficult to analyze and reverse engineer the code and the Anti-Virus scanners will not be able to detect the obfuscated malware proving that the recent windows defenses and malware scanners are not capable enough to secure our privacy and data.