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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
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Section 3: Using Bypass Techniques in the Real World

Chapter 8: Best Practices and Recommendations

In this chapter, we will explain what the antivirus software engineers did wrong, why the antivirus bypass techniques worked, and how to make antivirus software better with secure coding and other security tips.

Now that we have explained and shown examples of the three most basic vulnerabilities that can be used for antivirus bypass, as well as having presented the 10 bypass techniques we have used in our own research, this chapter will outline our recommendations.

It is important to be aware that not all antivirus bypass techniques have a solution, and it is impossible to create the "perfect product." Otherwise, every single company would use it and malware would not exist, which is why we have not offered solutions for every bypass technique.

In this chapter, you will gain a fundamental understanding of secure coding tips and some other tips to detect malware based on several techniques.

This chapter will be divided...