Top 6 anti-virus Open-Source Projects

hosts

306 25,463 9.5 Python

🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

Project mention: Does PiHole block porn? | /r/pihole | 2023-12-06

Not by default but a blocklist can be found here https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

signature-base

12 2,329 9.2 YARA

YARA signature and IOC database for my scanners and tools

Project mention: Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-01

> It doesn't matter.
To understand the exact behavior and extend of the backdoor, this does matter. An end to end proof of how it works is exactly what was needed.
> A way to check if servers are vulnerable is probably by querying the package manager
Yes, this has been know since the initial report + later discovering what exact strings are present for the payload.
https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/yara/b...
> Not very sophisticated, but it'll work.
Unfortunately, we live in a world with closed-servers and appliances - being able as a customer or pen tester rule out certain class of security issues without having the source/insights available is usually desirable.

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
BLUESPAWN

1 1,206 0.0 C++

An Active Defense and EDR software to empower Blue Teams
phpMussel

0 410 4.5

PHP-based anti-virus anti-trojan anti-malware solution.
MCAntiMalware

4 273 7.6 Java

Anti-Malware for minecraft
UTMFW

1 140 6.5 PHP

UTM Firewall on OpenBSD

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).