olemus
viirus, mis oma koodi
transleerib, redigeerib ja ümber kirjutab,
takistades käekirja järgi avastamist;
igal iteratsioonil asendab oma koodi
uue samaväärsega, nii et toime ei muutu
=
a kind of malware that can change its own code and signature patterns with every iteration

ülevaateid
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Babak_Bashari_Rad/publication/235641122/figure/fig6/AS:299935946821648@1448521710614/Figure-6-Structure-of-replicator-and-mutation-engine-in-metamorphic-virus.png

https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/metamorphic-virus

https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=366890&seqNum=6

näiteid
Simile, 2002, = Etap = MetaPHOR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile_(computer_virus)
Zmist, 2002, = Z0mbie.Mistfall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zmist

avastamine ja tõrje
http://www.nict.go.jp/publication/shuppan/kihou-journal/journal-vol52no1.2/02-08.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.5871.pdf

https://www.ma.rhul.ac.uk/static/techrep/2008/RHUL-MA-2008-02.pdf

https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs155old/cs155-spring09/papers/viruses.pdf

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2104/paper_231.pdf

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.457.9711&rep=rep1&type=pdf

https://ukdiss.com/examples/metamorphic-viruses.php

vt ka
- metamorfne kahjurvara
- polümorfviirus