Greetings from Amsterdam…

…and from the Crowne plaza hotel – home of the 2nd CARO workshop on “Packers, Decryptors and Obfuscators”.

As you may know, nowadays malware mostly comes in a packed form, in order to thwart Anti-Malware and security products. For this reason it is of great importance to be able to develop technologies that are able to “see through” these executable wrappers and detect the underlying malware in a smart way.

Easy to say – less easy to do. And this is the reason for which this workshop is really interesting

After attending this morning’s part of the workshop I have to say that the presented content has been really excellent – and technical too. Starting from the keynote speech through all the others thus far I’ve been struck by the depth of the information shared. I found Kurt Natvig’s presentation especially interesting as it covered the difficulties emulators face when dealing with modern malware – good job, Kurt!

Hopefully the presentation will be made available online too so I definetely advise anyone interested to monitor the CARO workshop website!

I need to go now as the afternoon’s presentations are starting! Talk to you later!