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1.10 Can Snort be evaded by the use of polymorphic mutators on shellcode?

Yes, and this could defeat some of the NOP sled detection signatures, but the ordinary exploit rules should not be affected by this kind of obfuscation. The fnord preprocessor attempts to detect polymorphic shellcode attempts.


Nigel Houghton 2006-10-02
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