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

What is a red team operation?

Before we understand what a red team is and what its sole purpose is, it is important to first understand what a penetration test is—or in its shorter form, a pentest.

A pentest is a controlled and targeted attack on specific organizational assets. For instance, if an organization releases a new feature in its mobile application, the organization will want to check the security of the application and consider other aspects such as regulatory interests before the new feature is implemented into their production environment.

Of course, penetration tests are not just conducted on mobile applications but also on websites, network infrastructure, and more.

The main goal of a penetration test is to test an organization's assets to find as many vulnerabilities as possible. In a penetration test, practical exploitation followed by Proof of Concept (PoC) proves that an organization is vulnerable, and thus its integrity and information security...