Virus scanners for virus authors, part II

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Virus scanners for virus authors, part II
Botnet
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services	Scan4you, Avcheck ru
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2010 / 2010-04-05
Editor/Conference	Krebs on Security
Link	http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/04/virus-scanners-for-virus-authors-part-ii/ (Archive copy)
Author	Brian Krebs
Type	Blogpost

Abstract

“ While there are free services like VirusTotal and Jotti that will let visitors upload a suspicious file and scan it against dozens of commercial anti-virus tools, the reports produced by the scans are shared with all of the participating anti-virus makers so that those vendors can incorporate detection for newly discovered malware into their products. While virus writers probably would love to use such services to fine-tune the stealth of their malware, they may not want their unique malware samples broadly shared among the anti-virus community before the malware has even had a chance to infect PCs.

Bibtex

 @misc{2010BFR4532,
   editor = {Krebs on Security},
   author = {Brian Krebs},
   title = {Virus scanners for virus authors, part II},
   date = {05},
   month = Apr,
   year = {2010},
   howpublished = {\url{http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/04/virus-scanners-for-virus-authors-part-ii/}},
 }