Avast Vpn Code Activation

[Mohammed Huberty]

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I've been practicing my C# lately on a new system. Compiling is fine, however when I try to run the generated .exe file, avast! thinks it is malware and runs it in the sandbox for a while (and it doesn't work in the sandbox as it should work normally), and only when it has finished scanning it will it let me run it normally.

...manually edit[ing] the line where the path for the exception is. So, using the "browse" button, select first the folder, and then edit the resulting path and "add" to exclusions. You can also use "*" and "?".

As others have mentioned, the culprit is DeepScreen. It's especially bad if you have Avast set to Silent/gaming mode because then you can get unexpected/bizarre behavior and have no idea why. (I spent an entire day debugging the installer for a program I'm developing because it suddenly started running twice every single time I launched it--DeepScreen is very forgetful--and only succeeding on the the second run.)

Going under Settings, Update, Details, you can turn off popups for the majority of them--the annoying update-related popups, which should make it easier to work undisturbed, play video games, etc. But DeepScreen popups still pop up!

Unfortunately, the only way I currently have of disabling DeepScreen (in Avast 2014.9.0.2021) is to disable all shields! And I'm not even sure that this is working, since I sometimes get DeepScreen popups even with all shields disabled. Avast can't be prevented from starting with Windows during boot, so maybe uninstalling Avast is the only solution.

I have tried all of the other solutions, like adding an exclusion or deep screen exclusion or exclusion to File System Component shield or disabling deepscreen, etc. The only solution that works for me is to stop the Avast service in services.msc or Computer Management/Services.

Done all the things above (including scanning/excluding the directory/exec where the exec is located) but 20 second after starting, avast kill it. No message, no quarantine, but i have found a way to circumvent the problem:

Avast released its analytical tool, RetDec, to help the cybersecurity community fight malicious software. The tool allows anyone to study the code of applications to see what the applications do, without running them. Let's fight the bad guys together!

As we announced in our Botconf 2017 presentation at the beginning of December (slides), RetDec, our machine-code decompiler, is now open, which means anyone can freely use it, study its source code, modify it, and redistribute it.

The goal behind open sourcing RetDec is to provide a generic tool to transform platform-specific code, such as x86/PE executable files, into a higher form of representation, such as C source code. By generic, we mean that the tool should not be limited to a single platform, but rather support a variety of platforms, including different architectures, file formats, and compilers. At Avast, RetDec is actively used for analysis of malicious samples for various platforms, such as x86/PE and ARM/ELF.

The source code of the decompiler and other related tools is now available on GitHub under the MIT license. By open-sourcing the decompiler, we would like to make its use more widespread and invite others to cooperate with us on its continued development.

A decompiler is a program that takes an executable file as its input and attempts to transform it into a high-level representation while preserving its functionality. For example, the input file may be application.exe, and the output can be source code in a higher-level programming language, such as C. A decompiler is, therefore, the exact opposite of a compiler, which compiles source files into executable files; this is why decompilers are sometimes also called reverse compilers.

By preserving a program's functionality, we want the source code to reflect what the input program does as accurately as possible; otherwise, we risk assuming the program does one thing, when it really does another.

Generally, decompilers are unable to perfectly reconstruct original source code, due to the fact that a lot of information is lost during the compilation process. Furthermore, malware authors often use various obfuscation and anti-decompilation tricks to make the decompilation of their software as difficult as possible.

RetDec addresses the above mentioned issues by using a large set of supported architectures and file formats, as well as in-house heuristics and algorithms to decode and reconstruct applications. RetDec is also the only decompiler of its scale using a proven LLVM infrastructure and provided for free, licensed under MIT.

Decompilers can be used in a variety of situations. The most obvious is reverse engineering when searching for bugs, vulnerabilities, or analyzing malicious software. Decompilation can also be used to retrieve lost source code when comparing two executables, or to verify that a compiled program does exactly what is written in its source code.

You may have already heard about disassemblers and may think that a decompiler is basically the same thing. Wrong. There are several important differences between a decompiler and a disassembler. The former tries to reconstruct an executable file into a platform-agnostic, high-level source code, while the latter gives you low-level, platform-specific assembly instructions. The assembly output is non-portable, error-prone when modified, and requires specific knowledge about the instruction set of the target processor. Another positive aspect of decompilers is the high-level source code they produce, like C source code, which can be read by people who know nothing about the assembly language for the particular processor being analyzed.

We would like to note that many different types of decompilers exist. RetDec is a machine-code decompiler, which means it only supports the decompilation of programs executing native processor code (e.g. for Intel x86). A machine-code decompiler is thus unable to decompile bytecode (e.g. .NET, Python, Java).

RetDec is a machine-code decompiler that has been in development since 2011. It was originally created as a joint project by the Faculty of Information Technology of the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, and AVG Technologies. Since the acquisition of AVG Technologies by Avast in 2016, Avast has continued to develop the decompiler.

The name RetDec stands for Retargetable Decompiler. We have already explained what a decompiler is, but what is a retargetable decompiler? We decided to give the decompiler the name because it is not limited to a single target architecture, operating system, or executable file format.

The easiest way to try out the decompiler is via our web service. From your favorite web browser, you simply upload the executable file you want to decompile and press the decompilation button. After the decompilation finishes, you can view the results:

If you want a more programmatic access, you can use our REST API, which allows anyone to write applications that interact with RetDec by sending HTTP requests. The easiest (and recommended) way of using the decompiler via the API is by using retdec-python:

Finally, since the source code of the decompiler is available on GitHub, you can build, install, and use our decompiler directly on your PC. Currently, RetDec supports the Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Information belonging to over 100 Italian banks breached by the Ursnif banking trojan was obtained by Avast Threat Labs, which then shared the data with as many of the victims as could be identified.

Code reuse is very frequent in malware, especially for those parts of the sample that are complex to develop or hard to write with an essentially different alternative code. By tracking both source code and object code, we efficiently detect new malware and track the evolution of existing malware in-the-wild.

Diamorphine is a well-known Linux kernel rootkit that supports different Linux kernel versions (2.6.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x) and processor architectures (x86, x86_64 and ARM64). Briefly stated, when loaded, the module becomes invisible and hides all the files and folders starting with the magic prefix chosen by the attacker at compilation time. After that, the threat actor can interact with Diamorphine by sending signals allowing the following operations: hide/unhide arbitrary processes, hide/unhide the kernel module, and elevate privileges to become root.

In early March 2024, we found a new Diamorphine variant undetected in-the-wild. After obtaining the sample, I examined the .modinfo section and noticed that it fakes the legitimate x_tables Netfilter module and was compiled for a specific kernel version (Kernel 5.19.17).

By listing the functions with Radare2, we can notice that the sample under analysis consisted of Diamorphine kernel rootkit (i.ex. module_hide, hacked_kill, get_syscall_table_bf, find_task, is_invisible, and module_show). But we can see also additional functions in the module (a, b, c, d, e, f, and setup) indicating that the sample was weaponized with more payloads.

To insert this Diamorphine variant, we need a Linux operating system with the kernel version 5.19.17. We can find the appropriate Linux distro by using Radare2 too. Based on the compiler, we can see that Ubuntu 22.04 is a good candidate for this.

Therefore, the kernel rootkit can be inserted in an Ubuntu Jammy distro having the appropriate version of the symbols (see the Module.symvers file of the kernel where the Diamorphine variant will be inserted into).

Finally, if the input sent from user mode space is the string exit, it calls to the exit_ function of the rootkit which restores the system, frees the resources and unloads the kernel module from memory.

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