No filetype checks on RAR-archives

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Wed Apr 15 07:42:40 UTC 2015


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Jerry Benton
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> On Apr 15, 2015, at 3:37 AM, Volker Dose <vpdose at kirchenweg.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I am using CentOS and afaik there is no rar-Support compiled in - at least no sign of "libclamavunrar":
>  
>  
> [root at mailscanner ~]# ldd /usr/bin/clamscan 
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00748000) 
>         libclamav.so.6 => /usr/lib/libclamav.so.6 (0x008ef000) 
>         libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x001bf000) 
>         libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00f46000) 
>         libbz2.so.1 => /lib/libbz2.so.1 (0x00515000) 
>         libssl.so.10 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.10 (0x00659000) 
>         libcrypto.so.10 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.10 (0x0030a000) 
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x004d2000) 
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00fce000) 
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00526000) 
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00749000) 
>         libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x00541000) 
>         libkrb5.so.3 => /lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0x00af2000) 
>         libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x004fc000) 
>         libk5crypto.so.3 => /lib/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00581000) 
>         libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x005ac000) 
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00e11000) 
>         libkrb5support.so.0 => /lib/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00501000) 
>         libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x0050d000) 
>         libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0x00bfc000)
>  
> When I check a zip-archiv it shows this:
>  
> [root at mailscanner ~]# clamscan putty.zip
> 
> putty.zip: Sanesecurity.Foxhole.Zip_exe.UNOFFICIAL FOUND
> 
> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
> Known viruses: 4478278
> Engine version: 0.98.6
> Scanned directories: 0
> Scanned files: 1
> Infected files: 1
> Data scanned: 0.00 MB
> Data read: 0.25 MB (ratio 0.00:1)
> Time: 16.959 sec (0 m 16 s)
> 
>  
>  
> [root at mailscanner ~]# clamscan putty.rar
> 
> putty.rar: OK
> 
> ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
> 
> Known viruses: 4478278 
> Engine version: 0.98.6 
> Scanned directories: 0 
> Scanned files: 1 
> Infected files: 0 
> Data scanned: 0.22 MB 
> Data read: 0.22 MB (ratio 1.00:1) 
> Time: 17.652 sec (0 m 17 s)
> 
>  
>  
> But this is maybe just a side-problem, I was hoping to get the filetype recognition working in MS.
>  
> Here my Settings regarding rar/unrar  in MailScanner.conf:
>  
> Unrar Command = /usr/bin/unrar 
> Unrar Timeout = 50
>  
>  
> Best regards
> Volker
> 
> > Rick Cooper <rcooper at dwford.com <mailto:rcooper at dwford.com>> hat am 15. April 2015 um 02:03 geschrieben: 
> > 
> > 
> > Volker Dose wrote: 
> > > Hi, 
> > > 
> > > I have already configured the foxhole-stuff and it works brilliantly 
> > > on zip-files. But no effect on executables in rar-archives. 
> > > 
> > > I was reading, that clam has no support for opening and scanning 
> > > rar-archives because of license issues. I have the actual clamav 
> > > installed and even tried to compile from scratch, but no success 
> > > -rar-files are not scanned. 
> > 
> > ClamAv has had RAR capabilities since verion 0.90. 
> > Now, from what I remember Fedora does not include libunrar (even though it's 
> > free) and I think there version of the rpm uses the --disable-unrar switch 
> > as well. Don't remember if you are using fedora or not. 
> > 
> > 
> > Also you have to have unrar installed for MailScanner to unpack it. 
> > Look in the MailScanner.conf for 
> > 
> > MailScanner.conf:Unrar Command = /usr/bin/unrar 
> > 
> > And point it to your unrar binary 
> > 
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