Know your Malware – A Beginner’s Guide to Encoding Techniques Used to Obfuscate Malware

What is Obfuscation? Obfuscation is the process of concealing the purpose or functionality of code or data so that it evades detection and is more difficult for a human or security software to analyze, but still fulfills its intended purpose. It makes use of various types of encoding techniques, but is not exactly the same thing as encoding