The Laboratorium : Facebook Phishers Using Latin to Obfuscate Their Malware

A common technique among malware authors is to evade virus scanners by piecing together an encrypted version of an evil code segment a few letters at a time, then decrypting and executing it. This particular version uses Latin and Latin-sounding names for its functions and variables. It still looks like gibberish, but it’s oddly disorienting gibberish.

May 22, 2009 at 9:30 AM

Eric Goldman

Latin gibberish? Sounds like a lot of legal briefs I’ve seen.

May 22, 2009 at 12:56 PM

KYL

Law Latin is very bad Latin though, unlike the malware writer’s.