Popular anti-disassembly techniques

Malicious software creators utilize strategies to hinder the disassembly procedure and obstruct the reverse-engineering process of their code. The software utilizes carefully designed and developed code to manipulate disassembly analysis tools to produce an erroneous program listing.

Here are a few commonly used techniques that can prevent disassembly:

• API obfuscation refers to the practice of changing the names of identifiers, such as class names, method names, and field names, to arbitrary names. This is done to make it challenging for anybody reading the code to comprehend its functionality.
• Opcode/assembly code obfuscation complicates the process of disassembling malware through the use of strategies such as executables containing decrypted sections and code instructions that are illegible or illogical.
• Control flow graph (CFG) flattening involves breaking up nested loops and if statements, which are then concealed within a...