'Plague Scanner' controls multiple AV engines, for $0.00

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/27/plague_scanner_box_offers_invisibility_cloak_to_white_hats_vxers/

By Darren Pauli
The Register
27 Jul 2015

Security researcher Robert Simmons has released a tool that offers a new 
level of stealth to the malware cat-and-mouse skirmish by shrouding binary 
analysis.

"Plague Scanner" is a free on-premise anti-virus framework - a class of 
tool that drives multiple anti-virus scanners at once - and is the only 
free alternative to commercial frameworks or online systems.

It can help businesses to analyse malware containing potentially sensitive 
corporate information, or black hats to test their wares without exposing 
either to traditional public web services like VirusTotal.

Simmons (@MalwareUtkonos) says the only commercial on-premise multiple 
antivirus scanners worth their salt are hugely expensive and out of the 
range of small to medium businesses, independent researchers, and probably 
black hats.

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