Bitdefender Find virus in avast directory 17.1.2282 Beta

[roxdl]

hi

i scan my pc with Emsisoft find virus in avast directory in this path

C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\pdf.dll

i scan this file with VT Below link

Antivirus scan for f5f019feca54164921822dabeabb9a303ff9ff0224fca92488123c5c4e536099 at 2017-01-03 21:46:09 UTC - VirusTotal

 

[Wave]

The file you linked us to using VirusTotal is a clean DLL file which is apart of Avast Anti-Virus, you can ignore the detection's, they are only false positive ones... In fact, based on the detection names from the VirusTotal report, I think it's safe to say that the detection's are pretty much heuristic based anyway (which means the Avast DLL was not flagged as malicious by an analyst when the sample was processed through the database detection's, but the static heuristics did based on the DLL file characteristics/bytes within it).

Avast are known by millions and every real vendor on the market will know about them, they probably just forgot to white-list the DLL in their trusted DB, or forgot to add Avast as a trusted publisher (if they have a supported DB for this).

That being said, the DLL file is signed by AVAST Software s.r.o and the code signing authentication was processed by DigiCert.

 

[ttto]

Same false positive in all products with BD engine

 

[Ink]

Is the PDF.dll used by SafeZone browser, or other purpose?

 

[jamescv7]

Most of the false positives are came within heuristics/generic detection, so for sure the staff on Bitdefender did not analyze nor verify it from the first place.

Remember that in order to gather good information, you need an AI/Robot.