Build a Malware Analysis Lab (Self-Hosted & Cloud)

The following summary shows a comparison of tested solutions to protect workstations against malware. We encourage you to become familiar with a detailed description and read our testing methodology in order to understand the results.

AMTSO aims to track all significant anti-malware and related tests, including upcoming tests. Those marked “AMTSO Standard” are run under the AMTSO Testing Protocol Standard compliance process. Dates for future tests are approximate and may be

AV-Comparatives conducts a variety of tests, to ensure that all aspects of security solutions are covered. Each test report contains details of the aim of the test, methods and sample sizes used.

Provides independent comparative tests and reviews for antivirus software, antimalware tools, and security software for Windows, Mac, and Android.

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.

FortiGuard provides several sample files to test the configurations relating to file-based threats

The wicar.org website was designed to test the correct operation your anti-virus / anti-malware software. The following table contains static HTML pages with known malicious content, based on the Metasploit Framework.