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312-50V13 · Question #16

Which of the following viruses tries to hide from anti-virus programs by actively altering and corrupting the chosen service call interruptions when they are being run?

The correct answer is B. Stealth/Tunneling virus. A stealth/tunneling virus attempts to evade antivirus detection by actively manipulating or corrupting operating system service call interruptions when they are being executed.

Submitted by viktor_hu· Mar 6, 2026Malware Threats

Question

Which of the following viruses tries to hide from anti-virus programs by actively altering and corrupting the chosen service call interruptions when they are being run?

Options

  • AMacro virus
  • BStealth/Tunneling virus
  • CCavity virus
  • DPolymorphic virus

How the community answered

(19 responses)
  • A
    5% (1)
  • B
    89% (17)
  • C
    5% (1)

Why each option

A stealth/tunneling virus attempts to evade antivirus detection by actively manipulating or corrupting operating system service call interruptions when they are being executed.

AMacro virus

A macro virus infects documents and templates, using macro programming languages, but does not primarily focus on altering service call interruptions for stealth.

BStealth/Tunneling virusCorrect

A stealth virus actively hides its presence by intercepting requests from the operating system or antivirus programs and returning clean, uninfected information instead. A tunneling virus can also bypass antivirus software by installing itself into the interrupt handler chain, thereby 'tunneling' under the operating system to intercept disk read requests.

CCavity virus

A cavity virus attempts to hide by installing itself into empty areas or 'cavities' within a legitimate program's file structure without increasing the file size, rather than corrupting service calls.

DPolymorphic virus

A polymorphic virus changes its own code (mutation engine) with each infection to avoid signature-based detection, but its primary method isn't to alter service call interruptions.

Concept tested: Virus evasion techniques (Stealth/Tunneling)

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/tn-archive/cc782672(v=technet.10)

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#virus types#stealth virus#malware evasion

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