“The Avast Sandbox is a special security feature which allows you to run potentially suspicious applications automatically in a completely isolated environment.” “The Avast Sandbox lets you run a questionable program without risking your computer.” In other words, it blocks a sandboxed process from interacting (code/remote thread injection) with other processes that run outside of the sandbox, as well as dropping new files and/or modifying existing ones.
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The Avast Sandbox implementation is based on a kernel mode file system driver called “Avast Virtualization Driver” (aswSnx.sys) which is responsible for isolating a specific process from the rest of the system. These are usually implemented by lowering the integrity level of a process and/or by removing certain resource access related privileges from it. This is not to be confused with other sandboxing techniques implemented at a userland level, for example by web browsers such as IE.
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These videos just demonstrate that AVAST products do not always trigger the DeepScreen scan feature, and not how to escape from the sandbox while the process is already running inside it.Īvast is one of the first AV vendors that incorporated their own Sandbox in an AV product. In this article we will focus on a design flaw in the AVAST Sandbox/DeepScreen features, and the impact that this can have over the extra security layers that these features attempt to provide.Īs a side note, after doing some research regarding this flaw, I discovered a few videos online named as “AVAST Sandbox Bypass”, which are not related with escaping from a fully sandboxed process. There is still a lot of work to do in this area, but this is the future for preventing 0-day malware infections. In addition, providing extra sandboxing capabilities that allow the user to execute untrusted applications in a safer way, and/or mitigate in common scenarios the impact of an exploit against a trusted one, such as a web browser, is something that can be very valuable. The next big thing in malware detection, from the AV point of view, is sandboxing an unknown sample and analysing it inside a fully controlled environment while monitoring its behaviour in a more generic way. The AV industry has started to understand that they cannot rely on this anymore nor on simple heuristics on known behavioural patterns, for example based on a certain logic of execution paths and function calls. It is likely that this flaw will remain in supported Avast products for some time.īreaking static AV detection signatures is quite trivial. An Avast Sandbox escape, CVE-2016-4025, is possible due to a design flaw in the Avast DeepScreen feature.
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