Defined term
Packer
Packer: Compression program or compression algorithm of a program.
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Cybersecurity
Definition
Compression program or compression algorithm of a program. Originally intended to optimize the size of a program on the hard drive. Malware often uses upstream packers to prevent recognition by anti- virus software and to make analysis of the malware (reverse engineering) more difficult.
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