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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

Secure coding recommendations

Because antivirus software is a product that is by definition providing some level of security to endpoints, writing secure code is essential. We can learn from history that there are plenty of security vulnerabilities out there that can be used by malicious threat actors in the wild, which is why antivirus software vendors must put in their best effort to make their antivirus software more secure, plan their code securely, implement best practices, and always follow industry guidelines and recommendations.

Here are our secure code development recommendations to help improve your overall antivirus software security.

Self-protection mechanism

The most basic recommendation for any antivirus software vendor is to ensure that you have applied a self-protection mechanism to your own product.

Most antivirus software applies some level of self-protection to make it difficult for security researchers or threat actors to exploit vulnerabilities in the...