Didier Stevens

Thursday 13 July 2017

Analyzing ClamAV Signatures – Correction

Filed under: Malware — Didier Stevens @ 23:26

My previous blog post “Analyzing ClamAV Signatures” is incorrect. Here is a better explanation.

I wrongly assumed that the signature printed in the debug statement would be the actual signature in the ClamAV database. That is not always the case.

So here is a better method.

First I update the signatures (yup, that’s ClamAV on Windows):

This is a standard scan:

The signature is Win.Trojan.Mimikatz-6331391-0.

Then I do a search with sigtool in the database, providing a regular expression (Mimikatz-6331391) to match signature names (this matching process is case sensitive):

And this signature is more interesting. This is an extended signature. It is composed of several fields (: is the separator). Here I have each field on a separate line:

Field 1 is the name of the signature.

Field 2 is the type of file to scan: 1 is for PE files

Field 3 is the part of the file to scan: SE1 is the second section of the PE file.

Field 4 is the hex signature: the sequence of bytes to search for in the section, expressed as hexadecimal data. {-10} is a wildcard for 0 to 10 arbitrary bytes.

Field 5 is the minimum version of the ClamAV engine that supports this type of signature.

The bytes represent strings (UNICODE and ASCII):

This signature does not trigger on the genuine mimikatz binaries:

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