John Peacock wrote:

There have been a couple of reports of viruses being distributed in RAR files, specifically the Bagle family, which is a problem since Symantec's AV scanner wasn't working properly with RAR files and in fact could actually execute the virus <DOH>.

The RAR file format does contain a known signature:

Magic bytes
    0x52 0x61 0x72 0x21 0x1a (Rar!<end-of-file>) at offset 0x00


so it should be trivial to figure out what the Base64 encoding should look like. Then it could be added to a signatures_rar to use with Gavin's exe_filter...

John

clamav handles them. clamav doc says the rar decompressor
leaks mem badly, newer version of libclam fixes rar buffer
overflow caused by Bagle worm's rar and clamav crashing
on some rar nonsense. See README and other docs.

exe_filter is quick, though, so I run it first(doesn't id rar yet
though)

-bob

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