AFAIK antivirus systems do (did?) not scan RAM, only persistent memory. So decrypting/decoding the malware in-memory and jumping into the code should avoid dete

AFAIK antivirus systems do (did?) not scan RAM, only persistent memory. So decrypting/decoding the malware in-memory and jumping into the code should avoid detection. That's how "runtime crypters" work or used to work a few years ago.