With the advance of packing techniques, a few generic and automatic unpackers have been proposed. These unpackers are designed to automatically unpack packed binaries without speci¡¥c knowledge of the packing techniques used. In this paper, we present an automatic packer with which packed malware forges spurious unpacking behaviors that lead to a denial-of-service attack on host-based generic unpackers. We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of the proposed packer and malware produced using the proposed packer, and show the success of denial-of-service attacks on host-based generic unpackers.
[ICICS 2009] Limin Liu, Jiang Ming, Zhi Wang, Debin Gao and Chunfu Jia, Denial-of-Service Attacks on Host-Based Generic Unpackers, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, Beijing, China, December 2009.