Bypassing Next Gen AV For Fun and Profit

Here's a little write up I did with one of the anti-viruses I'm having to look at. I hope this helps with anyone interested in how does some of the certs apply to real life. I'm glad to have this off my mind!

https://virtualizedcomputing.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/bypassing-next-gen-av-for-fun-and-profit/

Just hope that nobody is trying to get to your stuff!

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NetworkNewb

Nice website/blog

TacoRocket

Thank you! I started it as a way to keep my progress publicly accountable. Now I think I know the stride I want to take with it.

NetworkNewb wrote: »

Nice website/blog

chrisone

wow! impressive stuff! We are looking at Cylance, what is your take on it?

TacoRocket

Skeptical. I think they have a good product but I'm not a full believer. When its based on "Machine AI" it leads to higher false positives. Also a lot of your traditional AV has had to adapt because if they don't, signatures can get very outdated. I find it also a little silly when you have to tune an AV for false positives. Lastly I don't like their attitude on independent testing. They are openly hostile to independent testing and will let you know it. In the end my biggest concern is I concede that I am not a super security expert, but if I can get a system account within an hour or two, what happens when someone actually tries? It would be game over.

Also after this was published and retweeted around 10 times, someone from Symantec reached out and they want me to test their product in depth. Even pointing out that I used an outdated (still has support for updates) version of SEP. How cool is that? While I still have to test the fact that they are open to taking criticism is great in my eyes.

chrisone wrote: »

wow! impressive stuff! We are looking at Cylance, what is your take on it?

alias454

That's pretty awesome; nice job. I see you had John Strand for your 504. I like watching him on Paul's startup security weekly. The guys from Black hills infosec also have some additional interesting youtube videos related to this very topic and can be eye opening for those that think AV is 100% good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYuHAqY0xSw

I think at best AV might catch ~40% ish of the things(which is better than nothing) but definitely cannot be relied upon as the only protection.

TacoRocket

I agree completely. I still believe that we've become complacent to what AV does. So everyone looks for the next shiny thing when AV does great at detection and remediation.

I had John Strand for the 504 OnDemand. Had another in person instructor. I listen to Security Weekly (and the sister shows) regularly! I want to start looking into what BHI does more often but with school and certs my backlog is full.

alias454 wrote: »

That's pretty awesome; nice job. I see you had John Strand for your 504. I like watching him on Paul's startup security weekly. The guys from Black hills infosec also have some additional interesting youtube videos related to this very topic and can be eye opening for those that think AV is 100% good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYuHAqY0xSw

I think at best AV might catch ~40% ish of the things(which is better than nothing) but definitely cannot be relied upon as the only protection.