Introduction to Antivirus

Prompts and answers

• What does AV mean?
  Antivirus
• Which PC Antivirus vendor implemented the first AV software on the market?
  McAfee
• Antivirus software is a _____-based security solution.
  Host
• Which AV feature analyzes malware in a safe and isolated environment?
  Emulator
• An _______ feature is a process of restoring or decrypting the compressed executable files to the original.
  unpacker
• What is the sigtool tool output to generate an MD5 of the AV-Check.exe binary?
  f4a974b0cf25dca7fbce8701b7ab3a88:6144:AV-Check.exe
• Use the strings tool to list all human-readable strings of the AV-Check binary. What is the flag?
  THM{Y0uC4nC-5tr16s}
• Which detection method is used to analyze malicious software inside virtual environments?
  Dynamic Detection