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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 Autoruns

As in all operating systems, Windows contains many places where persistence may be used, and just as malware authors do, antivirus companies want to make use of persistence to start their processes when the operating system starts up.

In Windows, there are many places where it is possible to place files that will be started when the operating system starts up, such as the following:

  • HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
  • HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run
  • %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

But you will not need to memorize all these locations, because there is a tool called Autoruns (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns) for exactly this purpose.

Using Autoruns, we can display all the locations where persistence...

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