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Topic created on: April 9, 2009 00:13 CDT by madzone .

I have to do 1 Year full time research for my degree, I am confused what topic should i choose. Recently i submitted my technical paper for "Anti Reversing Techniques" and now i was thinking to extend this topic as

"Anti Reversing Techniques Their Usage in Malware Development and Their Limitations"

What do you say ?

  bunn   April 9, 2009 18:27.29 CDT
That's sort of generic, what exactly would you cover? Polymorphic code? Virtual Machines? Architecture or operating system discrepancies? Anti emulation?

If I had an opportunity to do this I would go deep into one area that will work in any situation. I'd probably do research on metamorphism or a generic way to heavily obscure binaries in any architecture or operating system. I'd give examples of how metamorphic code would look in x86, then another for ARM, then anything else.

IMO just talking about generic anti reversing techniques is done so much these days, I don't see anything complex often.

  madzone     April 11, 2009 03:35.44 CDT
I hope i will try to go deep into polymorphism, but don't you think it will become very specific to one type of area for malware.

I want to cover something like which should also be helpful in software components not specific to malware only. I want to be more specific toward software industry. I just want to give a idea about how these techniques are also being using in malware , and what is limitation of these techniques so reversers can still disasseble our code.

Please Guide me and give me some idea about this. what sould i do. ?

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