Forum Thread: Exploit Payload and Whatnot

I don't feel like I can construct a comprehensive answer to this question because I'm a dumbo, so let's hope someone else gives you a nice answer. Meanwhile, I can give you probably one of the worst analogies ever: I like to think of the payload as a bomb, the exploit is a truck, and the encoding part is like a box. We put the bomb in a few different boxes (number of boxes = number of iterations (even though iterations are more like a single box with a changing shape)), put the massive box in the truck, deliver the truck to the given destination (the boxes are hiding the bomb from being seen so it can slip by easily) and then we crash the truck into the target building's wall so we make a hole and we kinda "push" the boxes and the bomb all inside the building and then detonate it from afar. I don't know if this has been any helpful, I really hope it was :D

EDIT: If anyone finds any mistakes in my logic, please address them below, it would be helpful for me too.

Okay so about the changing shape thing and the AV, let's say that while we are travelling we get stopped by the police (or the AV in this case) and they are trained to check for clues for dangerous stuff on the trucks (like a small emblem on the box in which the bomb is placed that says "TNT" (in this case the antivirus software is "trained" to look for specific signs that there might be something dangerous in a file on a PC for example)), when we encode the payload, imagine that we are "swiping off and blurring" the emblem on the box that says "TNT" so it can no longer be read as something dangerous (more iterations = more swipes and amount of distortion of the "TNT" emblem) (no police officer in this case is gonna look at the box saying for example "UFT" (distorted "TNT" text) and think that there is something dangerous about it)). I think that's most of it covered, hope I helped :D

EDIT: I figured that a text-changing analogy instead of a shape-changing one might prove more sufficient for the logic that I'm trying to construct. Also don't trust what I say too much as I'm no way near an experienced person in this field and it'd be better if you wait to see if someone corrects anything of the above things before letting the analogies dwell in your brain :D

Literally the best analogies I've heard in my life.