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Antivirus Bypass Techniques

You're reading from   Antivirus Bypass Techniques Learn practical techniques and tactics to combat, bypass, and evade antivirus software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079747
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
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Uriel Kosayev Uriel Kosayev
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Uriel Kosayev
Nir Yehoshua Nir Yehoshua
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Know the Antivirus – the Basics Behind Your Security Solution
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Security Landscape FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Before Research Begins 4. Chapter 3: Antivirus Research Approaches 5. Section 2: Bypass the Antivirus – Practical Techniques to Evade Antivirus Software
6. Chapter 4: Bypassing the Dynamic Engine 7. Chapter 5: Bypassing the Static Engine 8. Chapter 6: Other Antivirus Bypass Techniques 9. Section 3: Using Bypass Techniques in the Real World
10. Chapter 7: Antivirus Bypass Techniques in Red Team Operations 11. Chapter 8: Best Practices and Recommendations 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

VirusTotal

In this book and in research of antivirus bypass techniques in general, we will use platforms such as VirusTotal a lot.

VirusTotal (https://www.virustotal.com/) is a very well-known and popular malware-scanning platform.

VirusTotal includes detection engines of various security vendors that can be checked against when uploading files, to check whether these detection engines detect a file as malware or even as suspicious, searching values such as the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, and hashes of already uploaded files. VirusTotal provides many more features, such as a VirusTotal graph, which provide the capability to check relations of files, URLs, and IP addresses and cross-referencing between them.

Platforms such as VirusTotal are very useful to us to understand whether our malware that is based on some of our bypass techniques actually bypasses part—or even all—of the antivirus engines present in the relevant platform...

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