IOCs

Here is a picture from "Securi-Tay 2020: Offensive Tradecraft - Defence Evasion" by - Paul Laîné which briefly sums up the technologies used by AVs to detect malware

We as attackers have to find ways to bypass and hide these detections.

I would also like to add a couple more things

• Sandboxing: Trigger payload in a controlled environment to track heuristic behaviors and flag known malware behavior

• Data Mining: Uses a known data set like virustotal to make algorithms to detect AV or just to build signatures to flag for

• In memory scanning: periodically scans or scans executable regions for malware in real time to detect malware

• Library load events

• Kernel callbacks

• EtwTi Kernel-mode event provider