[clamav-users] A better zip bomb

Arnaud Jacques webmaster at securiteinfo.com
Fri Nov 8 08:23:42 UTC 2019


Hello Brent,


> https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb/
> 
> I took the liberty of spinning up a vagrant instance to find out for 
> myself.
> 
> Here you can see I scanned the zip file, thats made available from the 
> above site. As you can see, clamav (inconjunction with Sanesecurity), 
> the file passed.
> 
> vagrant at stretch:~/src$ clamscan zbsm.zip
> zbsm.zip: OK
> 
> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
> Known viruses: 8944025
> Engine version: 0.101.4
> Scanned directories: 0
> Scanned files: 1
> Infected files: 0
> Data scanned: 63.13 MB
> Data read: 0.04 MB (ratio 1616.20:1)
> Time: 196.787 sec (3 m 16 s)


No need 3rd party signatures, official ClamAV seems to work fine with 
these files :

clamscan --alert-exceeds-max=yes --max-recursion=5 --max-ziptypercg=5M
/var/tmp/tmp/zblg.zip: Heuristics.Limits.Exceeded FOUND
/var/tmp/tmp/zbsm.zip: Heuristics.Limits.Exceeded FOUND
/var/tmp/tmp/zbxl.zip: Heuristics.Limits.Exceeded FOUND

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 8748540
Engine version: 0.101.4
Scanned directories: 1
Scanned files: 3
Infected files: 3
Data scanned: 169.38 MB
Data read: 53.22 MB (ratio 3.18:1)
Time: 396.918 sec (6 m 36 s)


-- 
Cordialement / Best regards,

Arnaud Jacques
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