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Antivirus Bypass Techniques

By : Nir Yehoshua, Uriel Kosayev
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Antivirus Bypass Techniques

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)
1
Section 1: Know the Antivirus – the Basics Behind Your Security Solution
5
Section 2: Bypass the Antivirus – Practical Techniques to Evade Antivirus Software
9
Section 3: Using Bypass Techniques in the Real World

Chapter 7: Antivirus Bypass Techniques in Red Team Operations

In this chapter, you will learn about the use of antivirus bypass techniques in the real world, and you also will learn about the difference between penetration testing and red teaming, along with their importance, as well as how to fingerprint antivirus software as part of a stage-based malware attack.

After we have finished our research and found antivirus software bypass techniques in a lab environment, we will want to transfer our use of them to the real world—for example, in a red team operation.

In this chapter, we will explore the following topics:

  • What is a red team operation?
  • Bypassing antivirus software in red team operations
  • Fingerprinting antivirus software