Based on the principles of transparency, accessibility, usability, verifiability and perceptibility of security capabilities, Antiy releases weekly updates of the AVL SDK anti-virus engine and the full set of capabilities to the public every week.

1. Weekly Update

Statistical period: January 6, 2024 ~ January 12, 2024

Antiy AVL SDK anti-virus engine released a total of 84 virus database updates this week, with an average of 12 updates per day, adding 58 new detectable malicious code families, 11,841 new detectable malicious code variants, and 42,322 new detection rules.

The following table shows the TOP5 newly detectable malicious code families:

Number	Virus Name	Virus Description
1	GrayWare/Win32.Netkeeper[AdWare]	This virus family is a type of adware that usually disguises itself as network security software or utility tools and spreads through various channels, such as email attachments, download software, malicious links, etc. Its purpose is to obtain advertising revenue, affect user experience, and even damage the user’s computer system and data security.
2	Trojan/PowerShell.DuckTail[Downloader]	This virus family is a Trojan virus that usually spreads by tricking users into clicking on malicious links or downloading files disguised as trusted programs. Once infected, it hides inside the system and starts performing malicious behaviors.
3	RiskWare/Win64.Adlice	This virus family is a type of riskware that continuously monitors the user’s Internet activities and steals sensitive information such as login credentials, bank account numbers, credit card information, etc.
4	HackTool/Win64.MimikatzPacker	This virus family is a hacking tool that spreads mainly through system vulnerabilities, social engineering, phishing, etc. Once infected with the system, it will hide inside the system and perform malicious operations, leading to problems such as system performance degradation, user privacy leakage, and remote attacks.
5	Trojan/Win32.Wipha[PSW]	This virus family is a Trojan virus, which is mainly spread through phishing emails, malicious downloads and network vulnerabilities, and aims to steal users’ personal information and sensitive data. The virus is highly concealed, spreads quickly and is highly destructive.

(According to the HASH number of family samples within the period)

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2. Full Detection Capabilities

As of 24:00 on January 12, 2024, the AVL SDK anti-virus engine can detect 17,070,370 malicious code variants of 55,084 malicious code families distributed in 8 basic categories, with a total of 58,889,748 detection rules.

The detection capabilities and the number of rules classified by malicious code are as follows:

Type	Detectable Malicious Code (Types)	Detection rules (Items)
Infectious viruses	52,027	10,389,026
Worms	293,471	5,952,937
Trojans	12,239,309	34,935,030
Hacking tools	423,746	446,694
Risk tools	1,149,715	3,155,431
Rogue software	2,912,085	4,008,901
Junk files	10	1,646
Test programs (for self-test)	7	83
Total	17,070,370	58,889,748

Preprocessing Capabilities (partial) :

There are 31 types of unpackable executable packers and 121 types of recognizable or extractable packages (including self-extracting archives).

Supporting Knowledge Output Capabilities:

For malicious code payloads, the AVL SDK is used in conjunction with the malicious code knowledge base, which can output 533 types of key behavior mapping tags and 139 types of ATT&CK threat attack framework technical and tactical tags, with a coverage rate of 64.29%, basically covering all the statically detectable tags in the ATT&CK framework.

Appendix: Introduction to Antiy AVL SDK Anti-Virus Engine

Antiy AVL SDK anti-virus engine is a threat detection capability middleware developed by Antiy for all architectures and system platforms. By embedding the AVL SDK, Antiy products and ecosystem partners’ products can acquire virus and malicious code detection capabilities, and receive continuous updates through the virus database.

For eight malicious code categories including infectious viruses, worms, Trojans, hacking tools, gray software, risky software, junk files, and test files, it accurately identifies and detects over 50,000 families and 18 million malicious code variants. The detection capability fully covers all known malicious codes and strictly adheres to the CARO convention. The output is structured and named in sections by classification, environment, and family, and based on the behavioral capabilities of malicious samples, it outputs nearly a hundred types of malicious behavior tags for typical malicious behaviors such as encryption ransomware, data theft, remote control, botnet programs, and mining. Antiy Engine can recognize over 300 file formats and conduct in-depth preprocessing on compilable executable formats such as PE and ELF. It also performs recursive unpacking of various packages (including self-extracting archives), and conduct structural analysis of compound documents such as OFFICE and ACAD files that may contain embedded scripts or vulnerability-prone formats. This ensures high robustness against malicious code. Antiy Engine also comes with a trusted file signature library, supporting the product to implement security policies based on blacklist and whitelist controls, significantly enhancing the difficulty for attackers.

Antiy’s detection capabilities can be fully deployed locally. Antiy automatically analyzes and processes over 2 million new file objects on average every day and releases a virus database update every two hours. It also provides support services such as cloud detection, cloud analysis, and computer virus encyclopedia.

Antiy AVL SDK is available in various versions such as traditional PC hosts, smart terminals, network traffic, IT application innovation systems, industrial systems, and unmanned systems. It provides threat detection capabilities for scenarios including host system and workload security, network traffic security, business flow security, email and file service security, etc. It fully supports various architectures such as X86, ARM, MIPS (including Cavium), RISC, and PowerPC, supports a variety of mainstream operating systems including domestic operating systems, Linux, and Windows, as well as real-time industrial operating systems like Vxwork. It also supports high-speed detection in backbone network scenarios.

Antiy AVL SDK empowers over 100 industry partners. In addition to Antiy’s own product deployment, Antiy Engine has cumulatively covered more than 4 billion nodes (including mobile terminals, secure and controllable PC endpoints, cloud-native nodes, network devices, network security devices, etc.), providing inherent security detection capabilities for mobile phones and smart terminals. The main partners using Antiy Engine include mobile phone enterprises such as Huawei, Xiaomi, Honor, VIVO and OPPO, large Internet enterprises such as Ant Financial, and several listed cybersecurity companies. Partner products using Antiy Engine have won internationally renowned evaluation awards such as AV-TEST and NSS Labs. The “L Tomahawk” logo of AVL SDK has become a symbol of reliable anti-virus capabilities.

All of Antiy’s products, including but not limited to IEP security protection system product family, Unified Workload Protect, Persistent Threat Detection System (PTD), Persistent Threat Analysis System (PTA), Attack Capture System, Qingzhu Zhiyu WAF, etc., all use Antiy anti-virus engine.

The AVL SDK anti-virus engine has been under development since 2001 and has undergone significant version upgrades and iterations. It has successively received support from key national initiatives, including: the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Innovation Fund for Technology-based Firms (2004), the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National High-Tech R&D Program (863 Program) (2006), the National Development and Reform Commission’s Information Security Special Project (2008), and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s Engineering Special Project (2019). The mobile version of AVL SDK won the 2014 AV-TEST Best Protection Award for Mobile Devices. Products powered by the AVL SDK, Antiy PTD and PTA, won first place in both the first and second National Cybersecurity Technology Challenge competitions hosted by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC).