Re: maldet alert from TCP-IDS

["Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com>]

I’m willing to bet that it’s a false positive in “Maldect” as a result of poorly written detection.  The rulesets 
inherently look for bad things, so when things (Maldect) that are designed to look for bad things, look at other things 
that are designed to detect bad things (our ruleset) the possibility does exist that you’d receive an alert.

Can you give us more about the alert?



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Joel Esler | Talos: Manager | jesler () cisco com<mailto:jesler () cisco com>






On Mar 20, 2017, at 12:44 PM, Scott Spangler <scott.spangler () devopsglobalsolutions com<mailto: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<mailto:root@tcp-ids.localdomain>>
Date: Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:28 PM
Subject: maldet alert from TCP-IDS
To: scott.spangler () devopsglobalsolutions com<mailto: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<mailto:proj () rfxn com> >

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