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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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Uriel Kosayev Uriel Kosayev
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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

Working with Process Monitor

Now that we have seen how to gather leads using Process Explorer as well as which antivirus processes are running and monitoring the actions of the operating system without any user involvement, we can continue gathering research leads. This time, we will find the process the antivirus software uses to conduct file scans. We'll locate this lead through operating system monitoring using the Process Monitor tool.

Processor Monitor (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon) is a tool that can be used to observe the behavior of each process in the operating system. For example, if we run the notepad.exe process, writing content into it, and then save the content into a file, Process Monitor will be able to see everything that happened from the moment we executed the process, until the moment we closed it, like in the following example:

Figure 2.11 – Actions of notepad.exe shown in Process Monitor

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