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Antivirus Bypass Techniques

Antivirus Bypass Techniques

By : Nir Yehoshua, Uriel Kosayev
4.3 (23)
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Antivirus Bypass Techniques

Antivirus Bypass Techniques

4.3 (23)
By: Nir Yehoshua, Uriel Kosayev

Overview of this book

Antivirus software is built to detect, prevent, and remove malware from systems, but this does not guarantee the security of your antivirus solution as certain changes can trick the antivirus and pose a risk for users. This book will help you to gain a basic understanding of antivirus software and take you through a series of antivirus bypass techniques that will enable you to bypass antivirus solutions. The book starts by introducing you to the cybersecurity landscape, focusing on cyber threats, malware, and more. You will learn how to collect leads to research antivirus and explore the two common bypass approaches used by the authors. Once you’ve covered the essentials of antivirus research and bypassing, you'll get hands-on with bypassing antivirus software using obfuscation, encryption, packing, PowerShell, and more. Toward the end, the book covers security improvement recommendations, useful for both antivirus vendors as well as for developers to help strengthen the security and malware detection capabilities of antivirus software. By the end of this security book, you'll have a better understanding of antivirus software and be able to confidently bypass antivirus software.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Section 1: Know the Antivirus – the Basics Behind Your Security Solution
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Section 2: Bypass the Antivirus – Practical Techniques to Evade Antivirus Software
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Section 3: Using Bypass Techniques in the Real World

Summary

In today's world, antivirus software is an integral part of security for endpoints including computers and servers, ranging from ordinary users to the largest organizations.

Most companies depend on antivirus software as a first or even last line of defense against cyber threats. Because of this, we decided to research antivirus software, find vulnerabilities in their engines, and most importantly, discover ways to bypass them to prove that they simply do not provide a completely bulletproof solution.

To conduct antivirus bypass research, it is crucial to understand the cybersecurity landscape. Every day, new risks and threats for home and business users emerge. It is important to get familiar with security solutions that provide better cybersecurity. Additionally, it's important, of course, to understand the basic solution, the antivirus, and to understand its inner workings and fundamentals to conduct better antivirus research. This helps both users and organizations evaluate whether their antivirus software provides the expected level of security.

In the next chapter, you will learn about the fundamentals and the usage of various tools that will help in conducting antivirus research lead gathering that will eventually influence the next levels of antivirus bypass research.

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