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Malware Glossary

The malware space is filled with specific terminology and jargon. We want defenders to be able to understand the common terms used across the industry, so we created a glossary of terms that you might find helpful when reading articles on our site or other sites across the Internet.

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Jitter

A random amount of variance added to the beacon interval to make it harder to detect the beacon activity
BEACONING
Defined on 2023-03-05 by Ryan Victory

Static analysis

Analyzing a file without executing it to understand what a file is. Static analysis treats files as sequences of bytes and generally doesn’t try to execute the file in any way.
ANALYSIS
Defined on 2023-03-05 by Ryan Victory

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