Chapter 7. Avoiding Detection
When you are performing a penetration test, nothing is more embarrassing than being caught by antivirus software. This is one of those little details that can be overlooked quite easily: If you don’t make plans to evade detection by antivirus software, watch out, because your target will quickly be alerted that something fishy is going on. In this chapter, we’ll cover situations in which antivirus software might be an issue and discuss possible solutions.
Most antivirus software uses signatures to identify aspects of malicious code that are present in a sampling of malicious software. These signatures are loaded into antivirus engines and then used to scan disk storage and running processes for matches. When a match ...
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