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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801079747

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Malware Analysis

Authors (2):

Uriel Kosayev

Nir Yehoshua

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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

Improving antivirus detection

In this section, we will discuss how to strengthen the detection of antivirus software in order to make the antivirus software more reliable using the dynamic YARA concept, the detection of process injection attempts, and more.

Dynamic YARA

As mentioned in Chapter 5, Bypassing the Static Engine, YARA is an easy-to-use, straightforward, yet effective tool to hunt for malicious patterns in files. It can not only be used on files but also to hunt for malicious strings, functions, and opcodes at the memory level. The yarascan volatility plugin makes practical use of "dynamic" YARA to scan for potentially malicious strings and code at the memory level, or in practical terms, on a dumped memory snapshot.

We believe that all antivirus vendors should implement this strategy (if they have not already) as part of their detection engines.

Why this capability is helpful

The dynamic YARA strategy gives your antivirus detection engine the ability...

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Authors (2)

Nir Yehoshua

Nir Yehoshua

Nir Yehoshua is an Israeli security researcher with more than 8 years of experience in several information security fields. His specialties include vulnerability research, malware analysis, reverse engineering, penetration testing, and incident response. He is an alumnus of an elite security research and incident response team in the Israel Defense Forces. Today, Nir is a full-time bug bounty hunter and consults for Fortune 500 companies, aiding them in detecting and preventing cyber-attacks. Over the years, Nir has discovered security vulnerabilities in several companies, including FACEIT, Bitdefender, McAfee, Intel, Bosch, and eScan Antivirus, who have mentioned him in their Hall of Fame.

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Uriel Kosayev

Uriel Kosayev

Uriel Kosayev is an Israeli security researcher with over eight years of experience in the cybersecurity field. Uriel is the author of the Antivirus Bypass Techniques book and a lecturer who has developed courses in the cybersecurity field. Uriel has hands-on experience in malware research, reverse engineering, penetration testing, digital forensics, and incident response. During his army service, Uriel worked to strengthen an elite incident response team in both practical and methodological ways.

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