Hello again,

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Maarten Broekman wrote:

Some of the phishing content that I'm finding is resulting in hex
dumps in the 10k+ character range and I think it's more dangerous to
replace sections with '*' than to replace certain substrings with
specific length wildcards.

This brings to mind a large proportion of our customers, who will
happily send us a four megabyte PDF file to order a pack of CDs.

I think it calls for a complete re-think.

It seems to me that if signatures are of that size there must be a
great deal of redundancy in them, and it might well be indicative of a
flaw in the process design.

I imagine that removing redundancy effectively will not be a matter of
tinkering with a few character strings, but of tackling the issue more
directly, possibly mathematically.

Please would someone explain to me the use of "{7-8}"?  I do not
recognize it as valid regular expression syntax.

According to the current ClamAV documentation (15 May 2012) repeat
character counts are not supported:

http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/phishsigs_howto.pdf

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73,
Ged.
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