Re: False Positive Report

"N.Sakai via clamav-users" <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:40:22 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.clamav.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello.

I just ran a scan on my environment and found that there are no more 
problems.
Thank you.



On 2025/03/28 11:57, N.Sakai via clamav-users wrote:
> 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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