On 9/23/21 02:10, Kenneth Porter via MIMEDefang wrote:
> I'm already running ClamAV and I block on file extensions. Is there any way 
> to recognize executables by content and block them? I just saw this article 
> on a coming attack vector through Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in which 
> the payload is an ELF binary that then downloads and spawns a Windows binary.
> 
> <https://blog.lumen.com/no-longer-just-theory-black-lotus-labs-uncovers-linux-executables-deployed-as-stealth-windows-loaders/>
> 
> The hard part would be defining "executable" but that could be extensible.
> 
File::LibMagic is the way to go, it will check the file using magic(5) and 
report info about the file format.
 Giovanni

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