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Best And Worst Antivirus Against Fake AV Malware

ID: 0d90b892-34ff-548d-bb14-60a982035301

STIX ID: report--0d90b892-34ff-548d-bb14-60a982035301

Feed Name: Zscaler Security Research Blog

Threat Score
30/100

Date Published: 2025-04-02

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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This report evaluates VirusTotal detection results for 16 fake‑antivirus executables across 43 antivirus engines, finding an average detection rate of ~30% (per‑sample range 12–49%), Sophos as the top detector (81%), and seven engines that detected none; the author warns AV vendors need to improve detection.

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