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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

The work environment and lead gathering

Before we start conducting antivirus research, we have to first understand some of the more fundamental aspects of how our operating system functions.

Here are the three main concepts that are important to us while gathering leads.

Process

A process is an object of a file that is loaded from the hard disk to the system's memory when executed. For example, mspaint.exe is the process name for the Windows Paint application:

Figure 2.1 – Process Explorer in Windows 10

Figure 2.1 shows processes running on Windows 10, using the Process Explorer tool.

Thread

A thread is a unit that is assigned by the operating system in order for the CPU to execute the code (CPU instructions) in a process. In a process, you can have multiple threads but it is mandatory to have at least one main thread:

Figure 2.2 – Running threads under a process in Windows 10

Registry

The registry...

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