Hi
@TheMalwareMaster
As I always say, you cannot be secure 100% when testing malware, even if you are in a virtual environment. It depends on the malwares you are testing. It is important to do not run malwares, which can be able to connect to internet and infect your connection. The most important thing to remember is that if you want to do dynamic malware analysis, you can't do that in a VM, but you must do that on a war PC.
Instead, if you want only to testing antivirus, so context scans, heuristic scans, etc. without run the malwares, you can obviously do it, also using softwares as Shadow Defender.
However there are several points to remember when you do malware testing in VMs:
- Use a different operating system for the host and for the guest. So, if you want to test malwares, which can infect Windows machines, you can use a Ubuntu host.
- Another important point is the security of the connection, for example if you are testing malwares, which can infect Windows guest, you can use an OpenBSD, which can't be attacked by malwares and viruses.
- Common sense...
I hope I helped you.