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Any real-time software that uses non-traditional ways to find malware?
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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 89360" data-source="post: 916239"><p>I ran everything remaining after AVG scan (Folder: “Malware”), monitoring what’s going on.</p><p>One sample was deleted by AVG IDP (behavioural blocker).</p><p></p><p>Many others were perfectly harmful cracks and patches, that didn’t drop any files, didn’t register autoruns and system remained clean.</p><p>VT had very few vendors classifying them as PUP/PUA</p><p></p><p>One of the samples was a game, which I’ve highlighted (VT 1/72) on a 6-month old file.</p><p></p><p>Rest was just corrupted and looking for files that don’t exist (which is a great sign it’s not actually an infection)</p><p></p><p>In the clean folder, I immediately noticed files that are far cry from “clean”. These files are</p><p>1. Very small in size . No developer can bring you a safe and beneficial program in 50 kb of size (even if they used OOP and recycled code with extreme effectiveness). Even cracks/patches/keygens are larger than that. Small size suggests high-compression, which is usually used to evade detection. It also shows lack of resources/UX, which is again, sign of malware.</p><p>2. Icon is a representation of the software and helps users to remember, and identify the program. No developer would use low-size, low-quality weird icons. If they do, I wouldn’t execute their software, even if it was a free rival of Adobe Photoshop.</p><p>3. Metadata wasn’t really convincing.</p><p>I submitted these files to VT and they were all malware, as my intuition suggested.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 89360, post: 916239"] I ran everything remaining after AVG scan (Folder: “Malware”), monitoring what’s going on. One sample was deleted by AVG IDP (behavioural blocker). Many others were perfectly harmful cracks and patches, that didn’t drop any files, didn’t register autoruns and system remained clean. VT had very few vendors classifying them as PUP/PUA One of the samples was a game, which I’ve highlighted (VT 1/72) on a 6-month old file. Rest was just corrupted and looking for files that don’t exist (which is a great sign it’s not actually an infection) In the clean folder, I immediately noticed files that are far cry from “clean”. These files are 1. Very small in size . No developer can bring you a safe and beneficial program in 50 kb of size (even if they used OOP and recycled code with extreme effectiveness). Even cracks/patches/keygens are larger than that. Small size suggests high-compression, which is usually used to evade detection. It also shows lack of resources/UX, which is again, sign of malware. 2. Icon is a representation of the software and helps users to remember, and identify the program. No developer would use low-size, low-quality weird icons. If they do, I wouldn’t execute their software, even if it was a free rival of Adobe Photoshop. 3. Metadata wasn’t really convincing. I submitted these files to VT and they were all malware, as my intuition suggested. [/QUOTE]
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