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 3, 2025 ~ January 9, 2026

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 30 new detectable malware families, 9,540 new detectable malicious code variants, and 60,504 new detection rules.

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

Number	Virus Name	Virus Description
1	Trojan/Win64.DarkRansom[Ransom]	This family is a type of Trojan. After the sample runs, it will change the desktop wallpaper and display the content of the ransom note. The ransom content includes ransom instructions, Tor network addresses and other information. The sample will encrypt files with specific extensions such as exe, bat, docx, mp3, jpg, etc., and append a suffix named “.enc” to the original file name.
2	Trojan/MacOS.MacSyncStealer	This family is a type of Trojan targeting the MacOS system, which enters the victim’s computer system by deceiving users or carrying other malicious software. Once infected, it runs in the background and steals sensitive information in a hidden manner, monitors user activities, and sends data to remote servers.
3	Trojan/Win32.Pliori[Backdoor]	This family is a type of Trojan that enters the victim’s computer system by deceiving users or carrying other malicious software. Once infected, it runs in the background and steals sensitive information in a hidden manner, monitors user activities, and sends data to remote servers.
4	Trojan/MSIL.Phishgen	This family is a type of Trojan that mainly spreads through network downloads. It has characteristics such as independent propagation and strong concealment, and attempts to hide itself, steal users’ sensitive information, and damage system security and stability.
5	Trojan/Python.Sysacro	This family is a type of Trojan written in the Python programming language, specifically designed to steal users’ sensitive information such as account passwords, financial credentials, and personal identity information.

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

For more related content, please visit www.virusview.net (the Computer Virus Encyclopedia).

2. Full Detection Capabilities

As of 24:00 on January 9, 2026, the AVL SDK anti-virus engine can detect 18,448,921 malware variants of 58,026 malware families distributed in 8 basic categories, with a total of 41,448,741 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	59,118	6,796,740
Worms	313,567	3,932,104
Trojans	13,406,242	25,211,426
Hacking tools	455,405	357,447
Risk tools	1,203,132	2,185,318
Rogue software	3,011,421	2,964,533
Junk files	11	1,077
Test programs (for self-test)	25	96
Total	18,448,921	41,448,741

Preprocessing Capabilities (partial) :

There are 31 types of shells that can be unpacked (accurate to the type), and 132 packages that can be disassembled, including all common packages and self-extracting packages.

Supporting Knowledge Output Capabilities:

For malware payloads, the AVL SDK and the accompanying malware knowledge base can output 533 key behavior mapping tags, covering 139 categories of ATT&CK tactical tags, with a coverage rate of 64.29%, basically covering all the statically detectable tags in the ATT&CK framework.

3. Be on Guard Against These Virus Families This Week

Recently, the Antiy Laboratory detected an active ransomware sample named Trojan/Win64.DarkRansom[Ransom] on the Windows platform. This ransomware was captured in January 2026. After running, this virus sample will change the desktop wallpaper and display the content of the ransom letter. The ransom content includes ransom instructions, Tor network address, and other information. The sample will encrypt files with specific extensions such as exe, bat, docx, mp3, jpg, etc., and append the suffix “.enc” after the original file name. Up to now, no tool has been found that can effectively decrypt the files encrypted by the DarkRansom ransomware.

3.1 Overview of the DarkRansom Family

Organization Name	DarkRansom
Occurrence Time	January, 2026
Encryption System	Windows
Extension Name	.enc
Technical Means	Encryption and obfuscation, encrypting data

Recommendations for Protection

For this ransomware, Antiy recommends the following protective measures:

(1) Install terminal anti-virus software: It is recommended to use host anti-virus and protection products such as Antiy Intelligent Endpoint Protection System (IEP) that use the AVL SDK engine. It is recommended that users of Antiy IEP enable the ransomware defense tool module (enabled by default).

(2) Enhance password strength: Avoid using weak passwords. It is recommended to use 16-character or longer passwords, including combinations of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. At the same time, avoid using the same password on multiple servers.

(3) Regularly change passwords: Change system passwords regularly to avoid password leaks that may lead to system intrusions;

(4) Timely update patches: It is recommended to enable the automatic update function to install system patches. System patches should be updated in a timely manner for vulnerable parts such as servers, databases, and middleware.

(5) Close high-risk ports: Adopt the minimization principle to external services and close unused high-risk ports such as 3389, 445, 139, and 135.

(6) Email security: Handle suspicious emails carefully to avoid downloading unknown attachments or clicking on unfamiliar links.

(7) Disable PowerShell: If you are not using the PowerShell command-line tool, it is recommended to disable it.

(8) Regular data backup: Regularly back up important files, and the backed-up data should be isolated from the host.

Antiy Emergency Response Service

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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).