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: July 25, 2026 ~ July 31, 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 49 new detectable malware families, 7,834 new detectable malware variants, and 27,831 new detection rules.

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

Number	Virus Name	Virus Description
1	Trojan/Win64.ViraEye[Ransom]	This family is a type of Trojan, typically spread through phishing emails, malicious downloads, or exploit attacks. Once infected, the malware encrypts users’ files and demands ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key, posing a serious threat to computer systems.
2	Trojan/Win32.BlackBoneDriver	This family is also a Trojan that primarily infiltrates computer systems via Trojan programs, monitoring users’ keyboard inputs and screen activities to record sensitive information such as account credentials and passwords.
3	Trojan/PHP.AlfaWebShell[Backdoor]	This family is a type of Trojan that infiltrates victims’ computer systems by deceiving users or bundling with other malicious software. Once infected, it runs in the background, covertly stealing sensitive information, monitoring user activities, and transmitting data to remote servers.
4	Trojan/Win32.TgShpion[Spy]	This family is a Trojan primarily spread through phishing emails, malicious download links, or bundled software. After infecting a user’s computer, it conceals itself and steals sensitive data such as account passwords and bank card details, thereby compromising user privacy and security.
5	Trojan/Win32.SectopRAT	This family is a Trojan that mainly spreads via trusted domains on AI platforms, masquerading as a Claude Desktop installer. It uses DLL side-loading to release the SectopRAT remote access Trojan, employs EtherHiding technology to hide C2 configurations, and carries out malicious activities including remote control, command execution, and theft of sensitive information.

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

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2. Full Detection Capabilities

As of 24:00 on July 31, 2026, the AVL SDK anti-virus engine can detect 18,639,632 malware variants of 57,359 malware families distributed in 8 basic categories, with a total of 42,321,860 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	59,752	6,833,751
Worms	315,832	3,955,253
Trojans	13,580,906	25,873,626
Hacking tools	459,177	368,310
Risk tools	1,207,555	2,256,242
Rogue software	3,016,371	3,033,486
Junk files	11	1,083
Test programs (for self-test)	28	109
Total	18,639,632	42,321,860

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 171 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

This week, we have been continuously vigilant about the security risks of AI platforms’ fake downloads and malicious advertisement dissemination. Recently, an attack activity named FakeAgent has been detected, which abuses Anthropic’s Claude Artifacts function. It hosts a fake Claude Desktop download page on a legitimate claude.ai domain name and combines Bing search advertisements to induce users to download and install malicious programs. The attackers redirect the victims to the fake download site and deliver an installation program carrying the SectopRAT remote control Trojan. The malicious family Trojan/Win32.SectopRAT employs techniques such as VMProtect obfuscation, DLL side-loading, and environment detection to evade analysis, and uses EtherHiding technology to store the C2 configuration on the Ethereum blockchain, enhancing communication concealment and anti-blockade capabilities. Eventually, it can achieve malicious functions such as remote control, command execution, and information theft.

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).