Add detection of packers based on entropy
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C-fileinfo
enhancement
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- C++
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Description
Currently, packers can be detected only by YARA rules or heuristics implemented in cpdetect.
Deciding whether binary is packed can be improved by considering entropy of input binary.
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Research direction
Start by reading the existing YARA-based detection and the heuristics implemented in cpdetect. Determine how entropy from the input binary could complement those mechanisms, and consider the work complete when packed-binary detection demonstrably uses entropy alongside the current approaches.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100