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Description Adversaries may modify a process's in-memory arguments to change its name in order to appear as a legitimate or benign process. On Linux, the operating system stores command-line arguments in the process’s stack and passes them to the main() function as the argv array. The first element, argv[0], typically contains the process name or path - by default, the command used to actually start the process (e.g., cat /etc/passwd). By default, the Linux /proc filesystem uses this value to represent the