[sanesecurity] Re: Sanesecurity.Phishing.Bank

  • From: Daniel McDonald <dan.mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sanesecurity <sanesecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:10:11 -0600



On 3/7/11 5:36 PM, "Chris" <cpollock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Received a spam today that had an attachment that had an .html extension
> which in reality was a javascript file. When running the attachment
> through clamdscan it was tagged as Sanesecurity.Malware.14565.UNOFFICIAL
> FOUND. Shouldn't the malware have been picked up along with the phishing
> or instead of?

That's one of the clamav limitations - it only records one match.  And there
is no priority system for "more important" matches, so if a file will hit
multiple signatures, a random one will be reported.


-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281



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