Hi Wally,
Downloaders are not generally Trojans, although they may result from a Trojan that is used to install a Downloader.
This signature has been in the Clamav database since Apr 26 2017, which would tend to indicate it's validity.
The signature breaks out to:
% sigtool -fTxt.Downloader.Generic-6298945-0|sigtool --decode-sigs
VIRUS NAME: Txt.Downloader.Generic-6298945-0
TDB: Engine:71-255,Target:7
LOGICAL EXPRESSION: (0|1)&(2>1)&3&(4>5)&(5>2)&(6>125)
* SUBSIG ID 0
+-> OFFSET: ANY
+-> SIGMOD: NONE
+-> DECODED SUBSIGNATURE:
admin
* SUBSIG ID 1
+-> OFFSET: ANY
+-> SIGMOD: NONE
+-> DECODED SUBSIGNATURE:
random
* SUBSIG ID 2
+-> OFFSET: ANY
+-> SIGMOD: NONE
+-> DECODED SUBSIGNATURE:
eval(
* SUBSIG ID 3
+-> OFFSET: ANY
+-> SIGMOD: NONE
+-> DECODED SUBSIGNATURE:
wscript.shell
* SUBSIG ID 4
+-> OFFSET: ANY
+-> SIGMOD: NONE
+-> DECODED SUBSIGNATURE:
:2e{EXCLUDING_STRING_ALTERNATIVE::}
* SUBSIG ID 5
+-> OFFSET: ANY
+-> SIGMOD: NONE
+-> DECODED SUBSIGNATURE:
activ
* SUBSIG ID 6
+-> OFFSET: ANY
+-> SIGMOD: NONE
+-> DECODED SUBSIGNATURE:
:2
Perhaps you have an add-on that is re-creating this file or you are visiting a page that re-creates it.
-Al-
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ClamXAV User
On Oct 21, 2022, at 5:54 PM, Wally Spratz <
wally@longoz.ca> wrote:
Hi all,Recently my clamav scan summary has starting showing a positive result for 'Txt.Downloader.Generic-6298945-0' in the following directory:/home/a/.cache/mozilla/firefox/aumvdtqj.default-release/cache2/entries/79B6E3A1CE2A151EBE6E39D2C50B6F304AFA5F65: Txt.Downloader.Generic-6298945-0 FOUND
Does anybody know whether or not this is a trojan?If I delete the Firefox cache it disappears for a few scans but eventually it comes back.Any idea what I should do to prevent this?I am on Firefox 105.0.2 (64 bit) on Fedora 35Here is the scan summary:/home/a/.cache/mozilla/firefox/aumvdtqj.default-release/cache2/entries/79B6E3A1CE2A151EBE6E39D2C50B6F304AFA5F65: Txt.Downloader.Generic-6298945-0 FOUND----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------Known viruses: 8640721Engine version: 0.103.7Scanned directories: 67339Scanned files: 484686Infected files: 1Data scanned: 46840.43 MBData read: 598814.74 MB (ratio 0.08:1)Time: 4253.298 sec (70 m 53 s)Start Date: 2022:10:21 15:15:01End Date: 2022:10:21 16:25:55ThanksWally
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