Questions tagged [antimalware]
Software which includes anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, anti-phishing, and other technologies that attempt to identify and/or block malicious programs.
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help in understanding hybrid analysis results? Mac
So I have a few PDFs on my computer I got online a few years ago on my Mac computer.
When I ran a virus total scan on some of them I got a couple that were concerning. Here is the one that most ...
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Employer installed Endpoint Security on personal computer
I have a personal device through which I access the employer's network through a VPN. I can connect and disconnect from the VPN when I choose. I did not know the employer had installed Sophos Endpoint ...
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Validate File Uploads in PHP: PDFs and images
We're trying to secure our upload forms in PHP regarding image uploads and PDF files. For this purpose, we're currently trying to do the following in all cases, according to our research done so far:
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Best practice: checking backups of CMS-websites for viruses (code, database, and files)?
I've got backup files of several CMS-based websites on my local computer (Microsoft Windows) that need to get checked for viruses. Are there anti-virus scanners that catch viruses in the code, in ...
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How do high-quality antiviruses recognize viruses? [duplicate]
How do high-quality antiviruses recognize viruses? I heard that such programs use virus databases. How high quality can an antivirus that uses free databases be, which databases are the best among ...
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Can you exclude scanning of a particular app or file on Avast Antivirus for Samsung?
I have Avast pro for my Samsung. I searched the whole app but I cant find the option to exclude/whitelist an app or file from scanning. Is there such an option for android? I looked through their ...
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Can I trust companies that test antimalware software? [closed]
Do they lie? I mean companies something like AV-TEST, AV-Comparatives, Virus Bulleting, ERG Effitas, etc.
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Windows Security deletes my USB virus as soon as I plug it in
I am studying ethical hacking and I work in the cybersecurity department of a company.
I have been testing a hacking program but some PCs delete this executable as soon as I plug in the USB and some ...
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Same miner detection by Kaspersky Anti-Virus after every boot up
I recently bought and downloaded Kaspersky. Since I downloaded it, after every reboot, it keeps detecting what seems to be a crypto miner. Every time it claims to delete it.
Should I be worried ?
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No antiviruses scan graphics cards VRAM for malware?
As I know, for antiviruses the VRAM is a blindspot, so casual Windows users like me can't do much about it. They have an antivirus, which doesn't even search for malware in VRAM.
What's the answer for ...
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How do you boot from the network using https?
How do you boot a Linux live image from a CDN using Https as boot protocol?
The reason for netbooting using a CDN would be to start fresh with a non persistent operating system image. Booting fresh ...
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Malware sinkhole evasion techniques
I have read into malware sink holing, as a way to disrupt botnets.
There are also approaches to make this more difficult, for example using a Domain Name Generator algorithm which is what the ...
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Do some malware/viruses stay on the internet basically indefinitely?
Biological viruses stay in the population essentially indefinitely. We have immune systems, but this somehow doesn't cause virus strains to completely disappear after some time, as everyone's immune ...
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What is the difference between malware signatures and malware artifacts?
I am trying to analyse some malware samples but I am trying to understand the differen between malware signatures and malware artifacts. As far as I understand (and from what I've understood from this ...
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Can a virus infect windows 10 bootable media?
I created a bootable windows 10 usb from my friend's computer. I used the official tool from microsoft. I was dumb enough to not check my friend's computer beforehand (turns out he had Utorrent Web ...
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Malware dropper uses "^" character in syntax of cmd.exe before calling mshta.exe to download file?
I found a malicious Excel file that was using an embedded HTA program as its dropper to download a powershell program from a malicious IP. The dropper was on a hidden sheet in the file. After ...
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Mp4 virus scanners
I used to download a lot of mp4's from untrusted sources. But I discovered that they could contain malware. I would like to know if there are any methods to clean or to check video files for malware.
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How can I have my process detect if antivirus injected a module or DLL to it?
I am writing an installer process (.exe). My installer deploys different components. It will add registry entries, copy files, copy files over the network, remote execute, remote PowerShell, local ...
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Do antivirus programs increase your attack surface and potentially give more power to malware?
When I was a student one of my professors used to say that an antivirus actually increases your attack surface by injecting itself into system processes and let's say opening more doors for ...
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How to find discrepancy between exploitable and unexploitable VM
For several years, I have been setting up VMs with 2-3 year old versions of Windows as well as some additional applications to demonstrate two-stage exploits using Metasploit for educational purposes (...
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How to stop 3rd party libraries from being reported as malicious, if they were part of malicious programs in the past?
Some are standard user space dll’s and another one is actually a windows driver. The libraries alone are not dangerous and are pure utilities but they can be used by bad guys, like most software tools....
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Are there any existing JTAG (hardware debugging) based malware detection systems, and if not, why?
JTAG
System software debug support is for many software developers the main reason to be interested in JTAG. Many silicon architectures such as PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, x86 built an entire software debug, ...
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Has exploitation been demonstrated against the fundamental constructs of the debugging process?
I'm curious to know if an attacker can fundamentally exploit the debugging process.
I'm not asking if specific debugging tools have been exploitable, surely some have, but rather whether the process ...
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Is there a way to record CPU operations for a given process as they occur in a standard, production OS environment?
Doing malware analysis I'm interested in being able to log every instruction the CPU executes for a given process. I was hoping this was perhaps possible in a standard VM environment, even if not ...
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Why don't computers enforce immutable address spaces for execution?
A piece of malware detects signatures of the sandbox an AV solution tries to use to fingerprint malicious behavior and pretends to be innocent. Once in the real OS environment, it then downloads ...
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Detecting and understanding malware/spyware [closed]
Recently, stumbled upon the new FB 500m+ leak and decided to satisfy my curiosity and poke around.
Basically just wanted to see how 500m+ user records were kept and what info was released( it was ...
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If a file has previously been scanned by VirusTotal, will the VirusTotal website always indicate this fact?
I recently downloaded a very popular open-source application. Usually, I compile open-source applications myself after reading the source code. But my compiler box was busy with many tasks, so I ...
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Can a antivirus software detect a malware that steals data?
For example, consider a software that wants to package all txt files in the /user/Desktop directory and upload them to its own server. I am not a programmer, but I know it can be done very easily with ...
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Cannot interpret maldet results
After executing sudo maldet -a /
LMD provides the following report:
HOST: foo.bar.baz
SCAN ID: 210117-2223.1145531
STARTED: Jan 17 2021 22:23:26 +0000
COMPLETED: Jan 18 2021 22:01:12 +0000
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What is the use case for antimalware manual scans?
I am not able to understand what use is the manual antimalware scan? All antivirus software has a manual anti-malware scan. I understand if it's the first time someone installs it on their infected/...
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Does malware that comes through outdated apps go away if I uninstall the apps?
I was reading this and this article.
The first article itself is about why software updates are extremely important for security, and the second one also mentions the following:
"Make sure your ...
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How to check for malware before downloading a torrent file?
I wanted to know if there is a way to check if a torrent file has malware or not, before actually downloading it via uTorrent f.e.
I only know VirusTotal site. Is this one reliable? Because each time ...
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Remote Access Trojan (RAT) -- How to detect, how to remove [duplicate]
Is there a guaranteed way to:
Know there is a Remote Access Trojan in my PC?
Remove it completely and successfully from my PC?
Note: Assume that the hacker doesn't leave any hint of their activity (...
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How to check which process is modifying my clipboard?
I'm on Windows 10 last build and for a few days it looks like I have a malware that modifies ethereum addresses in my clipboard.
I sadly tried a lot of antivirus, antispyware and nothing is found. I ...
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Why don't antivirus definition files get detected as malware
I was wondering... if antiviruses store virus definition files that contain virus signatures then why wouldn't they get detected as malware by themselves or Windows Defender or any other AV out there?
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What does the bizarre text mean at VirusTotal?
I downloaded Bitcoin Core from here: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.20.0/bitcoin-0.20.0-win64-setup.exe
I then uploaded it to VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/...
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Anti virus vs Anti malware? [duplicate]
What is the difference in anti malware like malwarebytes premium and an anti virus? Do I need both or would malwarebytes be enough?
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What are the benefits of enabling antivirus full scanning?
If AV auto-scan will detect and prevent the malware from executing why there is a need to enable schedule/full scans?
I'm asking because a full scan can create sometimes overhead on the machine and ...
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How could malware disable third party security software?
I'm asking this question with the assumption that anything the user can do, so can malware.
I'm using a third party firewall on my system to control which programs are able to access the internet. ...
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where to get more information about Malware [closed]
Where I can find more information about Malware, like its name, malware family, its behavior, first seen, which type of file its use, its internal code, etc. If someone knows any source of Malware ...
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How to make sure my phone is secure after a phishing attempt?
Situation: My phone is an android (Samsung Galaxy s6) - In a moment of mindless distraction yesterday I opened a pdf in a phishing email - it did contain a link but I did not click it. Very shortly ...
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Is signature based malware detection a thing of the past?
I made an experimental AV application to detect some test files as malware. It uses a simple signature based detection to detect those files. When my test AV encounters a file, it computes the SHA256 ...
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How does Antivirus identify virus using signature-base? [duplicate]
I have read many articles about AV signature-based but I'm still not clear how AV using Hash to compared with the signature.
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Does a Windows 10 endpoint check software installations for malware if they are installed through GPO / SCCM / Software Center?
I'm trying to get a view on what extra security checks our packaging team could do when they download a potentially infected installer from the web before they package an MSI or EXE (assuming that the ...
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How can I determine if a malware sample is morphic? (polymorphic, metamorphic, etc)
I want to do a malware test that specifically uses recent morphic malware samples (polymorphic, metamorphic, etc). There are a couple of good sources I can pull samples from, but I need to know if ...
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How to remove the malware which hijacks the homepage of various browsers by hao.360.cn [duplicate]
This has been really getting my nerve.
My friend installed some freeware which, in turn, hijacked the homepage of various browsers. The latter include chrome, edge, internet explorer, etc.
Here is ...
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Can Malware Fight Against Malware?
Is there is a way to create a better anti-malware tool by utilizing malware to fight against malware itself?
I've looked up how anti-malware works and searched a lot in famous sites like Avast Blogs (...
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Is it possible to get redirected to a malware download URI while using Tor as a proxy?
Now this is an interesting one. I just received a forwarded email notification from my data center provider that one of my servers accessed a sink hole that is associated with the nymaim malware. The ...
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Behavior Monitoring in Endpoint Protection Platform
There are some EPP solutions that are considered very innovative (Crowdstrike, SentinelOne...) for the use of Behavior Monitoring. What is the difference with more standard EPP solution (ex. Symantec ...
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How I can I make VBA macro force Run As Administrator
I'm trying to perform Reflective Dll Injection via VBA macro. The main idea behind using Reflective Dll Injection is to bypass Windows Defender as dropping an dll onto the disk seems very loud.
The ...
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