Generic unpacking malware steps

1.) Open malware in IDA

2.) Find the 'ret' of WinMain and look for closes "call" statements above it

3.) Find a VirtualAlloc, follow the EAX result get passed around until you see it in a "call" statement

4.) Find the address of that "call" statement

5.) Flip over to x32dbg, open the same malware, put a breakpoint on the address of the "call"

6.) Also set a breakpoint on VirtualAlloc (bp VirtualAlloc)

7.) Run until breakpoints, Follow in Dump repeatedly on EAX, looking at previous dumps

8.) Find MZ header that does not match original (use Hex Editor to compare)

9.) Follow in memory map, Dump to File, review in PE Studio to see if unpacked