Static and dynamic linking

In this section, we will cover the code libraries that were introduced in early operating systems to speed up the software development and improve the the ability of cooperation between different teams within a company to produce a software.

These libraries were a known target for malware families as they can be easily injected inside different applications in their memory and impersonate them to disguise their malicious activities.

Static linking

With the increasing number of applications on different operating systems, the developers found that there were a lot of code reuse and rewriting of the same logic over and over again to support certain functionalities in their programs. And because of that...