Re: Fwd: maldet alert from TCP-IDS

[Geoffrey Serrao <gserrao () sourcefire com>]

It might have something to do with the fact that the rule texts contain the
same bytes that the Maldect signatures are looking for.

It reminds me of scanning antivirus definitions with an A/V. You might get
some false positives.

I just downloaded the community ruleset from snort.org and I couldn't find
anything out of the ordinary:


On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Scott Spangler <
scott.spangler () devopsglobalsolutions com> wrote:

> Dear Snort Signature Community:
>
> Please see the contents below, as I wanted to bring to your attention,
> that a recent Pulledpork download of Snort community-rules contained a
> malware virus. The malware virus was immediately quarantined using Linux
> Maldect on the Snort IDS host.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Spangler
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: root <root@tcp-ids.localdomain>
> Date: Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:28 PM
> Subject: maldet alert from TCP-IDS
> To: scott.spangler () devopsglobalsolutions com
>
>
> HOST:      TCP-IDS
> SCAN ID:   170318-0328.10906
> STARTED:   Mar 18 2017 03:28:48 +0000
> COMPLETED: Mar 18 2017 03:28:59 +0000
> ELAPSED:   11s [find: 0s]
>
> PATH:
> RANGE:         1 days
> TOTAL FILES:   4
> TOTAL HITS:    1
> TOTAL CLEANED: 0
>
> FILE HIT LIST:
> {YARA}eval_post : /tmp/community-rules.tar.gz =>
> /usr/local/maldetect/quarantine/community-rules.tar.gz.2689929416
> ===============================================
> Linux Malware Detect v1.6 < proj () rfxn com >
>
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