Re: [clamav-users] PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJS-1 and PUA.Win.Trojan.EmbeddedPDF-1

On Thu, March 31, 2016 7:56 pm, Paul Kosinski wrote: > I disable Javascript in our PDF viewer. PostScript (which underlies > PDF) is a Turing-complete executable language, and even has a mechanism > to read and write files, so it could cause some trouble on its own. Good idea! For windows

Re: [clamav-users] PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJS-1 and PUA.Win.Trojan.EmbeddedPDF-1

I disable Javascript in our PDF viewer. PostScript (which underlies PDF) is a Turing-complete executable language, and even has a mechanism to read and write files, so it could cause some trouble on its own. On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:36:18 -0500 Noel Jones wrote: > Known

Re: [clamav-users] PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJS-1 and PUA.Win.Trojan.EmbeddedPDF-1

Thanks Noël. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > Known malware will still be detected, even if you ignore the > troublesome PUA sigs. > > These aren't really false positives since the .pdf really does > contain javascript. So the sigs are working as

Re: [clamav-users] PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJS-1 and PUA.Win.Trojan.EmbeddedPDF-1

Known malware will still be detected, even if you ignore the troublesome PUA sigs. These aren't really false positives since the .pdf really does contain javascript. So the sigs are working as intended. The alternative is to communicate to your users that .pdf files containing javascript are

Re: [clamav-users] PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJS-1 and PUA.Win.Trojan.EmbeddedPDF-1

That's known to me Steve. I'm afraid malware will not be detected in that case. P. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Steve Basford < steveb_cla...@sanesecurity.com> wrote: > > On Thu, March 31, 2016 2:33 pm, polloxx wrote: > > Since the new Clamav database we have a lot more false positives for

Re: [clamav-users] PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJS-1 and PUA.Win.Trojan.EmbeddedPDF-1

On Thu, March 31, 2016 2:33 pm, polloxx wrote: > Since the new Clamav database we have a lot more false positives for > PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJS-1 and PUA.Win.Trojan.EmbeddedPDF-1. > What can we do about this, except disabling PUA? Create a local.ign2 with the following lines:

[clamav-users] PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJS-1 and PUA.Win.Trojan.EmbeddedPDF-1

Since the new Clamav database we have a lot more false positives for PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJS-1 and PUA.Win.Trojan.EmbeddedPDF-1. What can we do about this, except disabling PUA? p. ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: