Metamorphic malware detection based on support vector machine classification of malware sub-signatures telkomnika.uad.ac.id

(September 2016)

Emulator techdocs.broadcom.com

Symantec Endpoint Protector (from v14) capability to create a virtual machine on the fly to identify, detonate, and eliminate malware hiding inside custom malware packers.

Cloak and dagger: Unpacking hidden malware attacks symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com

Packers storage.googleapis.com

Gunpack: Un outil générique d'unpacking de malwares sstic.org

Yoda Crypter sourceforge.net

Supports polymorphic encryption, softice detection, anti-debug API's, anti-dumping, etc, encrypts the Import Table and erases PE Header.

sePACKER sourceforge.net

Simple Executable Packer is compressing executables' code section inorder to decrease size of binary files.

RapidEXE sourceforge.net

Simple and efficient way to convert a PHP/Python script to a standalone executable.

Application Protector sourceforge.net

Tool for protecting Windows applications.

APKProtect sourceforge.net

APK encryption and shell protection supporting Java and C++.

tElock softpedia.com

Practical tool that intends to help developers who want to protect their work and reduce the size of the executable files.

DotNetZ softpedia.com

Straightforward and lightweight, command-line piece of software written in C that allows you to compress and pack Microsoft .NET Framework executable files.

XComp soft-lab.de

PE32 image file packer and rebuilder.

Smart Packer smartpacker.nl

Packs 32 & 64bit applications with DLLs, data files, 3rd party run-time into one single executable that runs instantly, with no installs or hassles.

Microsoft portable executable and common object file format specification skyfree.org

Automatic generation of adversarial examples for interpreting malware classifiers semanticscholar.org

(March 2020)

The application research of virtual machine in packers semanticscholar.org

(August 2011)

Research and implementation of packing technology for PE files semanticscholar.org

(January 2013)

PE-Probe: Leveraging packer detection and structural information to detect malicious portable executables semanticscholar.org

(June 2009)

Generic unpacker of executable files semanticscholar.org

(April 2015)

Detecting packed executables based on raw binary data semanticscholar.org

(June 2010)

Classifying packed programs as malicious software detected semanticscholar.org

(December 2016)

An implementation of a generic unpacking method on Bochs Emulator semanticscholar.org

(September 2009)

Packed malware detection using entropy related analysis: A survey semanticscholar.org

(November 2015)

Win32 portable executable packing uncovered securitylabs.websense.com

Detecting obfuscated malware using reduced opcode set and optimised runtime trace security-informatics.springeropen.com

(May 2016)

ERMDS: A obfuscation dataset for evaluating robustness of learning-based malware detection system scopus.com

(May 2023)

REFORM: A framework for malware packer analysis using information theory and statistical methods scispace.com

(April 2010)

Unpacking techniques and tools in malware analysis scientific.net

(September 2012)

ElecKey sciensoft.com

Suite of software and tools that offer a complete solution for software protection, copy protection, and license management.

MSG: Missing-sequence generator for metamorphic malware detection sciencedirect.com

(March 2025) :star:

MaliCage: A packed malware family classification framework based on DNN and GAN sciencedirect.com

(August 2022) :star:

Mal-flux: Rendering hidden code of packed binary executable sciencedirect.com

(March 2019)

Packer classification based on association rule mining sciencedirect.com

(July 2022) :star:

A learning model to detect maliciousness of portable executable using integrated feature set sciencedirect.com

(January 2017)

The arms race: Adversarial search defeats entropy used to detect malware sciencedirect.com

(October 2018)

Feature selection for packer classification based on association rule mining sciencedirect.com

(August 2024) :star:

Classification of packed executables for accurate computer virus detection sciencedirect.com

(October 2008)

Assessing the impact of packing on machine learning-based malware detection and classification systems sciencedirect.com

(September 2025) :star:

Analysis of machine learning approaches to packing detection sciencedirect.com

(October 2023) :star: :star:

Effective, efficient, and robust packing detection and classification sciencedirect.com

(May 2019) :star2: :star2: :star2:

Control flow-based opcode behavior analysis for malware detection sciencedirect.com

(July 2014)

On the adoption of anomaly detection for packed executable filtering sciencedirect.com

(June 2014)

Sequential opcode embedding-based malware detection method sciencedirect.com

(March 2022) :star:

An application of machine learning to analysis of packed mac malware scholar.dsu.edu

(May 2022) :star:

Packer analysis report debugging and unpacking the NsPack 3.4 and 3.7 packer sans.org

Unpacking binary 101 sam0x90.blog

SAC sac.sk

Slovak Antivirus Center, non-commercial project of AVIR and ESET companies ; contains packers, detectors and unpackers.

WinUpack sac.sk

Graphical interface for Upack, a command-line program used to create self-extracting archives from Windows PE files.

WinLite sac.sk

Compresses Windows executables (such as Pklite, Diet or Wwpack) for executables programs under DOS.