Three Simple Disguises for Evading Antivirus

The post argues traditional antivirus is largely ineffective against modular payloads like Meterpreter and demonstrates AV-evasion techniques: using 64-bit stagers, replacing MSFVenom’s default PE templates with custom executables or hand-rolled loaders, and optionally encoding shellcode. It generates multiple stager variants (reverse_tcp/http/https), tests them on VirusTotal, and finds that custom templates and 64-bit builds significantly reduce detections—sometimes evading all tested engines—highlighting the need for defenders to go beyond signature-based AV.