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 'description': 'Software packing is a method of compressing or encrypting an '
                'executable. Packing an executable changes the file signature '
                'in an attempt to avoid signature-based detection. Most '
                'decompression techniques decompress the executable code in '
                'memory.\n'
                '\n'
                'Utilities used to perform software packing are called '
                'packers. Example packers are MPRESS and UPX. A more '
                'comprehensive list of known packers is available, (Citation: '
                'Wikipedia Exe Compression) but adversaries may create their '
                'own packing techniques that do not leave the same artifacts '
                'as well-known packers to evade defenses.\n'
                '\n'
                'Adversaries may use virtual machine software protection as a '
                'form of software packing to protect their code. Virtual '
                "machine software protection translates an executable's "
                'original code into a special format that only a special '
                'virtual machine can run. A virtual machine is then called to '
                'run this code.(Citation: ESET FinFisher Jan 2018)',
 'external_references': [{'external_id': 'T1045',
                          'source_name': 'mitre-attack',
                          'url': 'https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1045'},
                         {'external_id': 'CAPEC-570',
                          'source_name': 'capec',
                          'url': 'https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/570.html'},
                         {'description': 'Executable compression. (n.d.). '
                                         'Retrieved December 4, 2014.',
                          'source_name': 'Wikipedia Exe Compression',
                          'url': 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_compression'},
                         {'description': "Kafka, F. (2018, January). ESET's "
                                         'Guide to Deobfuscating and '
                                         'Devirtualizing FinFisher. Retrieved '
                                         'August 12, 2019.',
                          'source_name': 'ESET FinFisher Jan 2018',
                          'url': 'https://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/WP-FinFisher.pdf'}],
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 'kill_chain_phases': [{'kill_chain_name': 'mitre-attack',
                        'phase_name': 'defense-evasion'}],
 'modified': '2025-10-24T17:48:56.248Z',
 'name': 'Software Packing',
 'object_marking_refs': ['marking-definition--fa42a846-8d90-4e51-bc29-71d5b4802168'],
 'revoked': True,
 'spec_version': '2.1',
 'type': 'attack-pattern',
 'x_mitre_attack_spec_version': '3.2.0',
 'x_mitre_contributors': ['Filip Kafka, ESET'],
 'x_mitre_deprecated': False,
 'x_mitre_detection': '',
 'x_mitre_domains': ['enterprise-attack'],
 'x_mitre_is_subtechnique': False,
 'x_mitre_modified_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'x_mitre_platforms': ['Windows', 'macOS'],
 'x_mitre_version': '1.2'}