[clamav-users] FilenameRegex and backreferences

Al Varnell alvarnell at mac.com
Thu Jul 6 10:41:38 UTC 2017


Have you used this Regular Expressions Tutorial?
<http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html>

-Al-

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 03:31 AM, kionez wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I wonder how I can use a backreference FilenameRegex in signatures
> based on container metadata. I read the manual (signatures.pdf), peeked
> into other rules (Sanesecurity) and some RTFM for OpenBSD regex without
> success.
> 
> I would like to intercept some recurrent pattern in filenames, for
> example (i want to match testtest.txt):
> 
> TEST.TestFilename.001:CL_TYPE_ZIP:*:(test)\1.txt:*:*:*:*:*:*
> 
> And, more "reallity-wise", i want to match filename inside a directory,
> where dir and file name are the same: PATTERN/PATTERN.exe with something
> like:
> 
> TEST.TestFilename.002:CL_TYPE_ZIP:*:([a-z]{8,12})/\1\.exe:*:*:*:*:*:*
> 
> But i can't find a way to make it work as expected.. there is someone
> who can help me? :)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> k.
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