The European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) has developed a test virus to test your antivirus appliance. This script is an inert text file. The binary pattern is included in the virus pattern file from most antivirus vendors. The test virus is not a virus and does not contain any program code.
The EICAR Anti-Virus Test File[1] or EICAR test file is a computer file that was developed by the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) and Computer Antivirus Research Organization (CARO) to test the response of computer antivirus (AV) programs.[2] Instead of using real malware, which could cause real damage, this test file allows people to test anti-virus software without having to use a real computer virus.[3]
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Anti-virus programmers set the EICAR string as a verified virus, similar to other identified signatures. A compliant virus scanner, when detecting the file, will respond in more or less the same manner as if it found a harmful virus. Not all virus scanners are compliant, and may not detect the file even when they are correctly configured. Neither the way in which the file is detected nor the wording with which it is flagged are standardized, and may differ from the way in which real malware is flagged, but should prevent it from executing as long as it meets the strict specification set by European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research.[4]
The use of the EICAR test string can be more versatile than straightforward detection: a file containing the EICAR test string can be compressed or archived, and then the antivirus software can be run to see whether it can detect the test string in the compressed file. Many of the AMTSO Feature Settings Checks[5] are based on the EICAR test string.[5]
The file is a text file of between 68 and 128 bytes[6] that is a legitimate .com executable file (plain x86 machine code) that can be run by MS-DOS, some work-alikes, and its successors OS/2 and Windows (except for 64-bit due to 16-bit limitations). The EICAR test file will print "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!" when executed and then will stop. The test string was written by noted anti-virus researchers Padgett Peterson and Paul Ducklin and engineered to consist of ASCII human-readable characters, easily created using a standard computer keyboard.[7] It makes use of self-modifying code to work around technical issues that this constraint imposes on the execution of the test string.[8]
The developers of one anti-virus software, Malwarebytes, have said that they did not add the EICAR test file to their database, because "adding fake malware and test files like EICAR to the database takes time away from malware research, and proves nothing in the long run".[11][12][non-primary source needed]
According to EICAR's specification the antivirus detects the test file only if it starts with the 68-byte test string and is not more than 128 bytes long. As a result antiviruses are not expected to raise an alarm on some other document containing the test string.[13] The test file can still be used for some malicious purposes, exploiting the reaction from the antivirus software:
The EICAR test file (official name: EICAR Standard Anti-Virus Test File) is a file, developed by the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research, to test the response of computer antivirus (AV) programs. The rationale behind it is to allow people, companies, and AV programmers to test their software without having to use a real computer virus that could cause actual damage should the AV not respond correctly. EICAR likens the use of a live virus to test AV software to setting a fire in a trashcan to test a fire alarm, and promotes the EICAR test file as a safe alternative.
AV programmers set the EICAR string as a verified virus like any other signatures. A compliant virus scanner, when detecting the file, will respond in exactly the same manner as if it found genuinely harmful code. Its use can be more versatile than straightforward detection: a file containing the EICAR test string can be compressed or archived, and then the antivirus software can be run to see whether it can detect the test string in the compressed file.
I would also remark that a good antivirus should be good in prevention, detection and eradication. The detection is unreliable, because antivirus products are always running behind the virus writers. The eradication part is always the weakest, and cleaning up after a virus may be incomplete or cause malfunctions, which is why reformatting and re-installation is often counseled after an infection. Even the US army is vulnerable and helpless against an infection.
I don't know of any good prevention tests, which in my opinion are after all the most important function. For detection you could consult sites which specialize in running antivirus products against virus samples (none of them publishes its test suite). Some such sites are :
Cheap: take an older PC, do a fresh install (with full formatting) of your OS, and take an image of the drive in that state. Then you can infect the PC and test software, and restore from the image when done.
Pros: cheap. easier to lock down so infections don't get out of hand.
Cons: time consuming.
Not-so-cheap: Use a virtual machine as the testbed for infections. Same concept: install OS, backup the clean drive, infect PC, test software, restore image, re-infect, test more software.
Pros: easier to restore from clean image. can run multiple tests at once.
Cons: more complicated to manage. requires more expensive hardware, especially when running multiple tests at once. can be harder to lock down, especially if your host OS can be infected by the viruses you're testing with.
I would tend to answer that you can't really do this. The reasoning is that all professional virus manufacturers and those who rate them maintain honeypot nets - a series of (usually) virtualized computers which either passively sit and/or go to known dangerous sites hoping to get infected so the malware infection attempts can be examined and analyzed and the performance of various programs rated. You (probably) don't have the resources to do this with sufficient size to have a statistically reliable sample.
The other thing they do is to employ researchers and companies to actively create variant and sometimes novel malware and then send those against the programs to see how the heuristic defenses fare versus the old style signature files. New and never before seen variants cannot be picked up the signatures so the heuristics are tested this way. Again - you probably won't have the resources to do this.
Old style signature files would be tested against known virus samples to see how the scanning works for speed, but testing against single samples and testing against multiple infections may result in widely different results.
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By sending a sample message with a test viral payload through the ESA, we can trigger the Sophos or McAfee anti-virus engine. Prior to performing the steps listed in this document, you will need to set up your Incoming or Outgoing Mail Policy and configure the mail policy to have anti-virus drop or quarantine virus infected messages. This document uses ASCII code provided from EICAR (www.eicar.org) that will simulate a test virus as an attachment:
On this lab ESA, 'Virus Infected Messages' are configured to Quarantine for "Action Applied to Message" on the particular mail policy. The action on your ESA may vary, based on the action taken for virus infected messages handled by anti-virus on your mail policy.
(I have seen an occasion that an AV program deletes the file while downloading but without identifying the virus as EICAR test virus. Just as a suspicious object--> i.e If it has the definition it should identify the virus name, details etc Isn't it?)
IMHO, the point of the test virus is to have something that is both known to be harmless, and accepted as a virus so that end users can verify that the AV software is turned on, and can see the effect of a virus identification. Think fire drill, for AV software.
I wouldn't be surprised if the bit pattern of the actual EICAR test happened to include bit patterns that smelled like opcodes for suspicious activity, but I don't know if that is the case. If it is, then it might be valid test of a simple heuristic virus recognizer. However, since the EICAR test has been around for a long time, I would also imagine that any heuristic that caches it isn't good enough to catch anything now in the wild.
Why did they go to this effort? Apparently the researchers wanted a program that was known to be safe to run, in part so that live scanners could be tested without needing to capture a real virus and risk a real infection. They also wanted it to be easy to distribute by both conventional and unconventional means. Since it turns out that there is a useful subset of the x86 real-mode instruction set where every byte meets the restriction that it also be a printable ASCII character, they achieved both goals.
Self-modifying code was an early virus trick, but here it is used to preserve the restriction on byte values that can be used in the string. In a modern system, it is possible that the data execution protection feature would catch the modification, if that is enforced on MSDOS compatibility mode running a COM file.
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