mandiant / mandiant/capa-rules

obfuscated using Obfuscator-LLVM

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Description

Or similar projects, see https://github.com/obfuscator-llvm/obfuscator

This often is cumbersome to analyze and results in FP rule hits.

I haven't looked into it in detail to find good detection spots yet.

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Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked Obfuscator-LLVM project and the capa-rules repository. Identify reliable detection spots for its obfuscation patterns and define rules that avoid the false-positive hits described in the issue. Done means the relevant rules are specified and their behavior is validated against suitable samples.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
reverse-engineering, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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