Malware Against the C Monoculture

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Malware Against the C Monoculture
May 20, 2019
https://research.checkpoint.com/malware-against-the-c-monoculture/

A great majority of notable malware is written in C language, or at best C++.
More importantly, a well-built C binary looks just like a legitimate program to the untrained eye, and runs without a hitch or a dialogue box. If we started listing current or historical high-profile malware that’s written in C or C++, we wouldn’t stop.

Still, is this choice set in stone? How much of it is well-founded decision, rather than just attachment to the status quo? In this article, we explore that question via a review of some malware where the authors chose otherwise.
Is this language — even this kind of language — a good fit for writing malware with, and why? [...]
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Conclusion
It’s difficult to say in advance which of these technologies, if any, will become the “next big thing” in the malware world. Some technologies, such as Golang and Powershell, seem particularly well-poised to do so (Powershell is already halfway there). Others, like Java and Rust, not so much.

But for a technology to become fashionable in the cybercrime circles, all it takes is one ambitious author to produce one high-profile successful campaign that hinges on it.
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