The Quest to Evade Defender - Part 1: A Basic Loader

This quest begins like many others. From a quest giver. In this case that quest giver is me in a temporary state of overconfidence. So the idea was simple. After having played around with Zig and getting some basic malware functionality working I decided I wanted to dive further into the world of maldev. Particularly around the world of obfuscation and evasion. I figured a good starting point would be to write a simple shellcode loader which can execute a basic Meterpreter payload without being detected by Windows Defender. ...

July 9, 2025 · 6 min