{'created': '2020-02-05T14:17:46.686Z',
 'created_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'description': 'Adversaries may perform software packing or virtual machine '
                'software protection to conceal their code. 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. 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) \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, but '
                'adversaries may create their own packing techniques that do '
                'not leave the same artifacts as well-known packers to evade '
                'defenses.(Citation: Awesome Executable Packing)  ',
 'external_references': [{'external_id': 'T1027.002',
                          'source_name': 'mitre-attack',
                          'url': 'https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1027/002'},
                         {'description': "Alexandre D'Hondt. (n.d.). Awesome "
                                         'Executable Packing. Retrieved March '
                                         '11, 2022.',
                          'source_name': 'Awesome Executable Packing',
                          'url': 'https://github.com/dhondta/awesome-executable-packing'},
                         {'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'}],
 'id': 'attack-pattern--deb98323-e13f-4b0c-8d94-175379069062',
 'kill_chain_phases': [{'kill_chain_name': 'mitre-attack',
                        'phase_name': 'defense-evasion'}],
 'modified': '2025-10-24T17:49:29.503Z',
 'name': 'Software Packing',
 'object_marking_refs': ['marking-definition--fa42a846-8d90-4e51-bc29-71d5b4802168'],
 'revoked': False,
 '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': True,
 'x_mitre_modified_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'x_mitre_platforms': ['Linux', 'macOS', 'Windows'],
 'x_mitre_version': '1.3'}

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