Reply to post: Re: Fileless?

Meet the Great Duke of... DLL: Microsoft shines light on Astaroth, a devilishly sneaky strain of fileless malware

jake Silver badge

Re: Fileless?

Sophistry isn't becoming, Cem Ayin.

The FILES are stored on a remote system. Copies are transferred over the network. Code contained within is handed to the CPU for execution. Regardless of how you try to abstract it[0], a .DLL is a file, period.

[0] I prefer "twist it", but whatever.

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