[clamav-users] Virus Signature Submitted on 17/10/2016

Al Varnell alvarnell at mac.com
Mon Nov 7 16:12:26 UTC 2016


Try uploading it to <https://www.virustotal.com/> and give us the link to the analysis page.  I don’t find that anything with that MD5 has been uploaded.

-Al-

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 07:25 AM, Richard McCombie wrote:
> 
> I uploaded a small ASCII-format file, which, like the EICAR test file, is
> supposed to trigger a warning from AV software. I'd be happy to email this
> to the appropriate address, but I won't do that until someone can confirm
> which address I can use without breaking any rules.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> On 7 November 2016 at 15:21, Al Varnell wrote:
> 
>> I’m a bit confused by this. Did you send a virus signature or did you
>> upload malware? Those are not at all the same thing.
>> 
>> -Al-
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:05 AM, Richard McCombie wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks Joel.
>>> 
>>> I have subscribed to community-sigs; the welcome message informs me that
>>> virus samples are not to be sent to the list:
>>> 
>>> Welcome to the Community-sigs at lists.clamav.net mailing list! DO NOT
>>> SEND VIRUS SAMPLES HERE!!! Send them through our web interface at
>>> http://www.clamav.net/sendvirus
>>> 
>>> On 7 November 2016 at 14:01, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The processing that comes in through the website is largely automated.
>>>> Submitting signatures should be done through the community-sigs list,
>>>> until
>>>> we make a submission method through the website.
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 7, 2016, at 6:45 AM, Richard McCombie wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Good morning,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I submitted a virus signature (at http://www.clamav.net/reports/
>>>>> malware
>>>>> )
>>>>> on 17th October. I used the name Richard McCombie for this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It would be great if you could incorporate this virus sample into your
>>>>> database of virus signatures. I am working on helping a client pass
>>>>> their
>>>>> penetration test; they are currently failing the test, because this
>>>>> virus
>>>>> sample, which is detected as a virus by other scanners, passes the
>>>>> ClamAV
>>>>> scan undetected.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The MD5 hash of the file I submitted is: 13710b10bf25b727cbf32c29d9ba3a
>>>>> 56
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you want me to resubmit this file, that is no problem.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Many thanks, in advance,
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Richard
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