Better design choice would be to randomize the allocation and scatter those pages and chunks throughout the process’s virtual memory space but there’s a price to pay: random allocation requires separate data structure holding those addresses and now allocator has to deal both with memory objects as well as their meta data each time malloc(3) and free(3) is called which certainly reflects on the performance.

But objective of using AI in malware generation and execution is not only to derive malicious code for exploitation purposes. In order for malware to be categorized as cognitive, it has to be able to truly utilize data-based AI capabilities, meaning to be able to observe, adapt and learn through experience.