Evaluating the State of the Art Antivirus Evasion Tools on Windows and Android Platform

Abstract

Hackers use malware to gain access to target computers. Malicious payloads are usually generated using tools such as Metasploit. As a means of defense, the target computers deploy anti-virus solution to detect this malicious payloads and protect the victim machines. In a reaction to this, the hackers created anti-virus evasion tools to evade detection by this antivirus solutions. But how effective are these antivirus evasion tools? This paper seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of some selected anti-virus evasion tools: Avet, Veil 3.0, The Fat Rat, PeCloak.py, Phantom-Evasion, Shellter, Unicorn and Hercules against current best Antivirus Solutions on Windows and Android platforms.