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NO_ACCESS_Protection

This is a technique that I found while reversing Halos anticheat. They encrypt the text section and set the protection to NO_ACCESS. The pages will be decrypted on first access. If the RIP, that referenced the memory, is outside of a valid module it will fail and will crash the process after some time. With this they can prevent:

• basic signature scanning (access violation + rip check)
• cheat engine veh debugger
• full process dumping (since you can encrypt the pages again)