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: October 10, 2026 ~ October 16, 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 57 new detectable malware families, 7,103 new detectable malware variants, and 27,869 new detection rules.

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

Number	Virus Name	Virus Description
1	Trojan/Win64.CornFlake[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.
2	Trojan/Win32.CoreLoader	Primarily spread through phishing emails, malicious download links, or bundled software, this Trojan hides itself after infecting a user’s computer and steals sensitive data such as account passwords and bank card details, thereby compromising user privacy and security.
3	Trojan/Shell.Psychedelic	This family is a type of Trojan that primarily spreads through network downloads, characterized by independent propagation and strong stealth capabilities. It attempts to hide itself, steal users’ sensitive information, and compromise system security and stability.
4	Trojan/Win32.Sdadown[Downloader]	This family is a type of Trojan that mainly exploits system vulnerabilities for propagation and infection. The malware disguises itself as legitimate software or hides within cracked programs and pirated software to trick users into downloading and executing it, thereby stealing sensitive data such as bank account details, passwords, and personal identification information.
5	Trojan/JS.NpmSteal[PSW]	This family is a type of Trojan that primarily bypasses certificate verification to connect to the attacker’s C2 server, stealing various development keys, login credentials, and cryptocurrency wallet data, while establishing persistent backdoors across Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms.

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

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2. Full Detection Capabilities

As of 24:00 on October 16, 2026, the AVL SDK anti-virus engine can detect 18,741,992 malware variants of 57,528 malware families distributed in 8 basic categories, with a total of 42,797,654 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	59,877	6,858,834
Worms	316,834	3,972,235
Trojans	13,676,162	26,245,619
Hacking tools	462,256	374,173
Risk tools	1,209,334	2,285,544
Rogue software	3,017,490	3,060,032
Junk files	11	1,087
Test programs (for self-test)	28	130
Infectious viruses	18,741,992	42,797,654

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 are alert to the Shai-Hulud malicious worm exploiting the Tensorlake npm software package to carry out supply chain attacks and sensitive credential theft activities. The attackers poisoned the Tensorlake 0.5.144 version, implanted malicious installation scripts in the software package, and used npm’s preinstall hook to automatically execute the obfuscated payload, stealing access tokens, cloud service keys, and SSH private keys from platforms such as npm, GitHub, AWS, and Kubernetes. At the same time, they targeted AI development tools and MCP configurations for information theft. The malicious program can use the stolen npm release credentials to poison other software packages for secondary poisoning, achieving worm-like propagation, and dynamically obtain C2 addresses through Ethereum smart contracts, combined with scheduled tasks to establish a persistent mechanism.

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).