Re: False Positive Report

"N.Sakai via clamav-users" <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:57:19 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.clamav.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank you for your reply.

I asked the owner of this file about it.
He told me that these programs are all provided by IBM, and they are 
part of an installer program called IIM (IBM Installation Manager).

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/installation-manager

These programs are used to install products such as "WebSphere 
Application Server" and "IBM HTTP Server", as well as during upgrades 
and the application of Fix Packs, so they indeed may exhibit behaviors 
that could be considered proxy-like.
The types of programs I am familiar with prove their identity by 
attaching a Code Signing Certificate to the program, allowing it to be 
confirmed as safe to execute, however, it appears that there is no such 
signature on this program.
I hope this helps in your decision-making.

On 2025/03/27 23:47, Jonathan Lee wrote:
> Do you mind explaining or expanding on what these two products do in terms of functionality they could in turn be marked block because they are being abused on a proxy system for example they’re staging and or using that product to abuse a proxy and pivot off of it thus clam antivirus is blocking it
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 27, 2025, at 01:57, N.Sakai via clamav-users <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello madam and sir,
>>
>> We found some files which were detected as "Win.Malware.Tedy-10043541-0" included
>> In the signature "Daily.cvd:27583" released on 21 March 2025, on some servers (Linux, AIX,Windows) that have ClamAV installed.
>>
>> We checked to see what they were, because two files of the same malware were detected.
>> They are launcher programs provided by IBM, and two Windows executive programs named as "ScriptLauncher64.exe" and "launchpad64.exe"
>>
>> The hash values of each are as follows:
>> a58caf03eaa7fa003e2d020025b5bd95490a1fccc1f5ee7409b37fe6c7e11b220f39513cdf45501402ad9d6158a312e487f43043f10fc452a9fc3100723234fd
>> ScriptLauncher64.exe
>> 58caf03eaa7fa003e2d020025b5bd95490a1fccc1f5ee7409b37fe6c7e11b220f39513cdf45501402ad9d6158a312e487f43043f10fc452a9fc3100723234fd
>> launchpad64.exe
>>
>> Since these are old programs released in 2017 and 2016 respectively, and are deemed safe by multiple other antivirus software, we believe that there is a high possibility that they are false positive.
>>
>> I also submitted a sample from the "False Positive Report" linked from :
>> https://www.clamav.net/contact、
>> but I did not receive any response the email address which I entered in the form, so we do not know if it was received by you properly.
>>
>> The form also said, "Refer to [clamav-virusdb] for updates," so we looked up the email archive, but the updates from the past few days did not contain any content I am looking for. (If a false positive is addressed, will it be listed in "Dropped Detection Signatures:" ?)
>>
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