Re: [clamav-users] Is there anything to do about encrypted viruses?

2020-12-22 Thread Paul Kosinski via clamav-users
Since the password has to be included for the victim to be able to decrypt, it ought to be possible to automatically find the password in the email. Of course, eventually the criminals will start hiding the password in some way that a human can easily find it, but non-AI automation can't. On

Re: [clamav-users] Is there anything to do about encrypted viruses?

2020-12-22 Thread G.W. Haywood via clamav-users
Hi there, On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, Alessandro Vesely via clamav-users wrote: Is there anything to do about encrypted viruses? Yes, indeed there is and it isn't too difficult. today I received a message with an encrypted zip attachment. I saved the attachment and loaded it to VirusTotal,

Re: [clamav-users] Is there anything to do about encrypted viruses?

2020-12-22 Thread Al Varnell via clamav-users
When you submit it, be sure to include the password so that the ClamAV signature team can properly asses it and provide a hash signature for the zip file. -Al- > On Dec 22, 2020, at 03:32, Alessandro Vesely via clamav-users > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > today I received a message with an

[clamav-users] Is there anything to do about encrypted viruses?

2020-12-22 Thread Alessandro Vesely via clamav-users
Hi all, today I received a message with an encrypted zip attachment. I saved the attachment and loaded it to VirusTotal, where no scanner detected anything: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2cef2c979e60c1e2892e6a494814dd65db14c2076102279e6e74737d36c115a5/detection Then I unzipped the file