Re: [AMaViS-user] Someone missed a virus..

This is a discussion on Re: [AMaViS-user] Someone missed a virus.. within the Amavis User forums, part of the Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Related Forums category; I think this is a bug as well. A PowerPoint document shows up as Microsoft Installer. The reason for this ...


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Old 06-16-2007
MrC
 
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Default Re: [AMaViS-user] Someone missed a virus..

I think this is a bug as well.

A PowerPoint document shows up as Microsoft Installer. The reason for this
is that the magic data file has this magic string commented out because of
false positives with powerpoint:

# False positive with PPT
#0 string \xD0\xCF\x11\xE0\xA1\xB1\x1A\xE1\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x3E\x00\x03\x00\xFE\xFF Microsoft Installer
....

But later in the file, it is alive and well:

0 string \xD0\xCF\x11\xE0\xA1\xB1\x1A\xE1\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x3E\x00\x03\x00\xFE\xFF Microsoft Installer

Immediately following it is:

0 string \320\317\021\340\241\261\032\341 Microsoft Office
Document

which when converted to hex :

0 string \xD0\xCF\x11\xE0\xA1\xB1\x1A\xE1 Microsoft Office
Document

is exactly the same initial 8 bytes as the previous entry.

All three test files (empty word .doc, empty powerpoint.ppt, and the
virus-laden Proforma_Invoice.doc file) match the Microsoft Installer entry.
I presume the second entry should have been commented out as well. I've
reported the findings to Christos Zoulas.

As an aside, only 5 of the scanners at virus.org noted detection.

Virus Found:

ArcaVir 1.0.4 Trojan.Dropper.Delf.Aem
ClamAV 0.90/3436 Trojan.Dropper-1047
F-PROT 4.6.7 W32/Dropper.ESR
F-Secure 1.02 Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Delf.aem [AVP]
Trend Micro 8.310-1002 TROJ_DROPPER.HKZ

No Virus Found:

avast! 3.0.0
AVG Anti Virus 7.5.47
BitDefender 7.1
CAT QuickHeal 9.00
Dr. Web 4.33.0
H+BEDV AntiVir 2.1.10-47
McAfee Virusscan 5.10.0
NOD32 2.51.1
Norman Virus Control 5.70.01
Panda 9.00.00
Sophos Sweep 4.17.0
VBA32 3.12.0.2
VirusBuster 1.3.3


MrC



> -----Original Message-----
> From: amavis-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:amavis-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf
> Of Noel Jones
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 5:54 PM
> To: amavis-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [AMaViS-user] Someone missed a virus..
>
> At 07:04 PM 6/15/2007, Mark Martinec wrote:
>
> >Seems the -i works better for this particular file, although

> generally
> >it is the other way around in my experience.

>
> On my system file(1) (file-4.21 from FreeBSD ports)
> classifies *all* MS Word and Excel documents as "Microsoft
> Installer", not just this one example.
>
> If everyone gets this same result, I would call it a bug in file(1).
>
> --
> Noel Jones



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