Evasive Windows Malware: Impact on Antiviruses and Possible Countermeasures

Cédric Herzog, Valérie Tong, Pierre Wilke, Arnaud Van Straaten, Jean-Louis Lanet
2020 Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications  
The perpetual opposition between antiviruses and malware leads both parties to evolve continuously. On the one hand, antiviruses put in place solutions that are more and more sophisticated and propose more complex detection techniques in addition to the classic signature analysis. This sophistication leads antiviruses to leave more traces of their presence on the machine they protect. To remain undetected as long as possible, malware can avoid executing within such environments by hunting down
more » ... he modifications left by the antiviruses. This paper aims at determining the possibilities for malware to detect the antiviruses and then evaluating the efficiency of these techniques on a panel of antiviruses that are the most used nowadays. We then collect samples showing this kind of behavior and propose to evaluate a countermeasure that creates false artifacts, thus forcing malware to evade.
doi:10.5220/0009816703020309 dblp:conf/icete/HerzogTWSL20 fatcat:jshax3vqv5brplnacho5syff3y