Isn't a lot of antivirus software just operating from a whitelisted group of software creator signatures crowdsourced from various companies? Isn't this very si

Isn't a lot of antivirus software just operating from a whitelisted group of software creator signatures crowdsourced from various companies? Isn't this very similar to email spam lists back in the day? Have you tried checking white papers from various cyber security providers? Or research papers? This isn't exactly my field of expertise.