destroy-software-breakpoint-capability.yml

rule:
  meta:
    name: destroy software breakpoint capability
    namespace: anti-analysis/anti-debugging
    authors:
      - echernofsky@google.com
    scope: function
    references:
      - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2018/03/01/finfisher-exposed-a-researchers-tale-of-defeating-traps-tricks-and-complex-virtual-machines/
      - https://anti-debug.checkpoint.com/techniques/assembly.html
      - https://www.mandiant.com/sites/default/files/2021-10/09-evil.pdf
    # examples:
    #   - al-khaser_x86.exe_:0x431020
  features:
    - and:
      - api: VirtualProtect
      - api: DbgBreakPoint    # This API is used as an argument to VirtualProtect to allow modification.