Re: [clamav-users] Generating signatures for malware

2012-08-31 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Maarten Broekman wrote: I see where your confusion comes from. I'm not generating pdb signatures. I'm generating ndb signatures ... Sorry, bit of a senior moment there. They seem to be creeping up on me lately. :( I had to go back and read http://www.clamav

Re: [clamav-users] Generating signatures for malware

2012-08-30 Thread Dennis Peterson
On 8/30/12 4:21 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: Please would someone explain to me the use of "{7-8}"? I do not recognize it as valid regular expression syntax. Here is an example used in a Sane Security signature: http://sane.mxuptime.com/s.aspx?id=Sanesecurity.Phishing.Auction.1749 It is an offs

Re: [clamav-users] Generating signatures for malware

2012-08-30 Thread Maarten Broekman
> -Original Message- > > 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. > > Please would someone

Re: [clamav-users] Generating signatures for malware

2012-08-30 Thread G.W. Haywood
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 br

Re: [clamav-users] Generating signatures for malware

2012-08-29 Thread Maarten Broekman
> -Original Message- > > > The rate of false positives is wholly dependent on the strings that > > > you are replacing with wildcards. > > > > > > As an example, when generating signatures to identify phishing > > > content (say, content targeting bank customers), I wanted to be > able > >

Re: [clamav-users] Generating signatures for malware

2012-08-29 Thread David Raynor
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 08/29/2012 09:46 AM, Maarten Broekman wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> Despite the statement of your objective it isn't clear to me what you > >> think you're going to achieve. My expectation would be a very large > >> incr

Re: [clamav-users] Generating signatures for malware

2012-08-29 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/29/2012 09:46 AM, Maarten Broekman wrote: >> -Original Message- >> Despite the statement of your objective it isn't clear to me what you >> think you're going to achieve. My expectation would be a very large >> increase in the false positive rates if you attempt to use signatures >>

Re: [clamav-users] Generating signatures for malware

2012-08-29 Thread Maarten Broekman
> -Original Message- > Despite the statement of your objective it isn't clear to me what you > think you're going to achieve. My expectation would be a very large > increase in the false positive rates if you attempt to use signatures > modified in the way you describe. Can you be more sp

Re: [clamav-users] Generating signatures for malware

2012-08-29 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Maarten Broekman wrote: Does anyone know of a tool that would take strings in a hex signature and turn them into appropriate wildcards? For instance, I want to strip out all the "http://"; and "https://"; and replace them with {7-8} Your suggested replacement d

[clamav-users] Generating signatures for malware

2012-08-28 Thread Maarten Broekman
Does anyone know of a tool that would take strings in a hex signature and turn them into appropriate wildcards? For instance, I want to strip out all the "http://"; and "https://"; and replace them with {7-8} to reduce the size of the signature and get more 'useful' strings in the signature? Ther