[clamav-users] email error submitting a virus sample

Kristen R kristen at atmyhome.org
Sun Feb 28 03:51:48 UTC 2016


> On Feb 27, 2016, at 6:09 PM, Al Varnell <alvarnell at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> I understand SHA-256 is preferred, but MD-5 will also work.
> 
> Submit them back here.
> 
> -Al-

$ openssl dgst -sha256 invoice_SCAN_fGYbuu.zip
SHA256(invoice_SCAN_fGYbuu.zip)= ba41513235b21783b9741b59ceb191cc6e65f15cd15ba58ab1d9c648513419c0

> 
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 06:08 PM, Kristen wrote:
>> 
>> On 2/27/16 4:50 PM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote:
>>> Kristen,
>>> 
>>> We'll take a look.
>>> 
>>> Please send us the hashes of the files.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Joel Esler
>>> Manager, Talos Group
>> 
>> Which hashes do you desire? And then where should I submit them?
>> 
>> Kristen
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Feb 27, 2016, at 8:21 PM, Kristen <kristen at atmyhome.org<mailto:kristen at atmyhome.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> List,
>>> 
>>> I just submitted to the virus submission webpage a new sample of a virus
>>> email that slipped through clamd on my mail server. I received an email
>>> with the subject "Successfully processed" from clamav.net<http://clamav.net>. However the
>>> content of this mail states;
>>> 
>>> Result:
>>> 
>>> Please encrypt your ZIP files with password virus
>>> 
>>> Please correct the above errors and retry. Thank you for helping the
>>> ClamAV project.
>>> 
>>> I have decompressed this zipped virus attachment, then zipped it anew
>>> with the requested password of virus and resubmitted again. In return I
>>> received the very same email message stating I need to correct my error
>>> and zip the file with the password virus and retry.
>>> 
>>> At this point I think something is broken and I have no idea if my
>>> submission has succeeded. Any thoughts?
>>> 
>>> Kristen
>> 

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