The Anti-virus Times

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

This sensational news report caught our attention recently:

With over a quarter of a century of anti-virus-software-development experience under our belts, our curiosity was piqued: what are these next-generation solutions and tools capable of detecting cyberattacks involving bodiless malware? Perhaps, we got stuck in the previous century and have some catching up to do?

In any case, let us mind you that a bodiless malicious program is not some unearthly, ethereal being that leaves no traces behind in infected systems. No, it's just an ordinary Trojan, but it doesn't store its payload in a file, but in a branch of the registry (which, in fact is also a file), or it extracts its malicious code from another file before it is executed.

Naturally, the more evasion techniques malware uses, the harder it becomes to detect it. But none of those techniques can make malware impossible to detect.

But let's get back to the news post. Here is the original article. Let's compare the texts:

So we are not talking about bodiless malware but about attacks that involve no malware whatsoever. So this is how hot news topics emerge and security researchers begin to talk about new trends.

Well, then what about the next-generation anti-virus solutions?

"Abnormal behaviour patterns”? We've already heard about this one!