What are the steps for custom malware development?
Environmental keying, sandbox evasion design, and custom encryption stub implementation.
How do you categorize modern offensive tooling?
Into Stagers (payload loaders), Beacons (C2 agents), and specialized Post-Exploitation modules.
Describe the Malware Development Lifecycle.
Reconnaissance of target EDR, language selection, obfuscation, and offline QA testing.
Why choose specific languages for malware?
C/C++ for low-level system calls; Nim/Rust to evade legacy signatures; C# for rapid AD interaction.
How do you defend against custom red team tooling?
Using WDAC for application control, memory forensics for unbacked code, and canary tokens for early detection.