Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Malware reported in mirror

2012-07-11 Thread Platonides
On 11/07/12 23:50, Kevin Day wrote: > > My final list of possibly naughty things uploaded. I know some of these are > pretty harmless (html being appended to jpegs), and most are just encrypted > RARs appended to images or encrypted PDF files. I don't know if there's a > policy on barring encry

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Malware reported in mirror

2012-07-11 Thread Kevin Day
My final list of possibly naughty things uploaded. I know some of these are pretty harmless (html being appended to jpegs), and most are just encrypted RARs appended to images or encrypted PDF files. I don't know if there's a policy on barring encrypted files but I can't really think of a good

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Malware reported in mirror

2012-07-03 Thread Platonides
On 03/07/12 18:47, Kevin Day wrote: > Even temporarily forgetting about the complexity of scanning PDFs, there's a > lot of weirdness in a lot of files that even ClamAV doesn't find. For > example: (replacing < and > with [ and ] so this doesn't trigger anyone's > mail spam filters) > > strings

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Malware reported in mirror

2012-07-03 Thread Kevin Day
On Jul 2, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Platonides wrote: >> On Jul 1, 2012, at 10:13 PM, Hydriz Wikipedia wrote: >> >>> As far as I know, the chances are rather slim, because the MediaWiki >>> software has a malware checker (I think). >>> >>> Perhaps we shall see what outputs from the ClamAV checking, be

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Malware reported in mirror

2012-07-02 Thread Platonides
> On Jul 1, 2012, at 10:13 PM, Hydriz Wikipedia wrote: > >> As far as I know, the chances are rather slim, because the MediaWiki >> software has a malware checker (I think). >> >> Perhaps we shall see what outputs from the ClamAV checking, before we can >> know what is happening. MediaWiki supp

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Malware reported in mirror

2012-07-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Kevin Day, 02/07/2012 05:27: [Found trojan] /z/public/pub/wikimedia/images/wiktionary/fj/c/c4/citibank-car-loan.pdf [Found exploit] /z/public/pub/wikimedia/images/wikisource/ar/7/7d/الحراب_في_صدر_البهاء_والباب.pdf [Found exploit] /z/public/pub/wikimedia/images/wikisource

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Malware reported in mirror

2012-07-01 Thread Kevin Day
On Jul 1, 2012, at 10:13 PM, Hydriz Wikipedia wrote: > As far as I know, the chances are rather slim, because the MediaWiki software > has a malware checker (I think). > > Perhaps we shall see what outputs from the ClamAV checking, before we can > know what is happening. I've been having a lo

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Malware reported in mirror

2012-07-01 Thread Hydriz Wikipedia
As far as I know, the chances are rather slim, because the MediaWiki software has a malware checker (I think). Perhaps we shall see what outputs from the ClamAV checking, before we can know what is happening. On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Kevin Day wrote: > > We got an automated notice from

[Xmldatadumps-l] Malware reported in mirror

2012-07-01 Thread Kevin Day
We got an automated notice from one of the big search engines that both http://ftpmirror.your.org and http://dumps.wikimedia.your.org were hosting some unspecified malware. I've verified nothing on the mirror box itself is compromised from the best I can tell, which leaves them being unhappy wi