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Packed Files-Malware Analysis Day 4/365 | by Joshua O. Berkoh | Jan, 2024

The blog post provides insights about packed malware, which are compressed programs that use a small wrapper program to decompress and execute the file. Detecting a packed file can be achieved using the now out-of-service PEID program. The structure of the file provides crucial information for a malware analyst, with the imported functions list being of great value. These imports are functions used by the program but stored elsewhere, often in code libraries.

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