What Is Defense Evasion? | Huntress

**Executive summary:** This article introduces "defense evasion" as a broad MITRE ATT&CK tactic, surveying both technical (fileless malware, timestomping, ETW/syscall manipulation, kernel-land methods) and psychological (masquerading, social engineering, targeting investigators) evasion techniques, discusses defender/offender asymmetry and living-off-the-land trends, and urges defenders to understand attacker tradecraft and research-driven mitigations.