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