The header parsing / executable metadata collecting functions for the
PE, ELF, and Mach-O file types were using `int` for the return type.
Mostly they were returning 0 for success and -1, -2, -3, or -4 for
failure. But in some cases they were returning cl_error_t enum values
for failure. Regardless, the function using them was treating 0 as
success and non-zero as failure, which it stored as -1 ... every time.
This commit switches them all to use cl_error_t. I am continuing to
storeo the final result as 0 / -1 in the `peinfo` struct, but outside of
that everything has been made consistent.
While I was working on that, I got a tad side tracked. I noticed that
the target type isn't an enum, or even a set of #defines. So I made an
enum and then changed the code that uses target types to use the enum.
I also removed the `target` parameter from a number of functions that
don't actually use it at all. Some recursion was masking the fact that
it was an unused parameter which is why there was no warning about it.
Scan recursion is the process of identifying files embedded in other
files and then scanning them, recursively.
Internally this process is more complex than it may sound because a file
may have multiple layers of types before finding a new "file".
At present we treat the recursion count in the scanning context as an
index into both our fmap list AND our container list. These two lists
are conceptually a part of the same thing and should be unified.
But what's concerning is that the "recursion level" isn't actually
incremented or decremented at the same time that we add a layer to the
fmap or container lists but instead is more touchy-feely, increasing
when we find a new "file".
To account for this shadiness, the size of the fmap and container lists
has always been a little longer than our "max scan recursion" limit so
we don't accidentally overflow the fmap or container arrays (!).
I've implemented a single recursion-stack as an array, similar to before,
which includes a pointer to each fmap at each layer, along with the size
and type. Push and pop functions add and remove layers whenever a new
fmap is added. A boolean argument when pushing indicates if the new layer
represents a new buffer or new file (descriptor). A new buffer will reset
the "nested fmap level" (described below).
This commit also provides a solution for an issue where we detect
embedded files more than once during scan recursion.
For illustration, imagine a tarball named foo.tar.gz with this structure:
| description | type | rec level | nested fmap level |
| ------------------------- | ----- | --------- | ----------------- |
| foo.tar.gz | GZ | 0 | 0 |
| └── foo.tar | TAR | 1 | 0 |
| ├── bar.zip | ZIP | 2 | 1 |
| │ └── hola.txt | ASCII | 3 | 0 |
| └── baz.exe | PE | 2 | 1 |
But suppose baz.exe embeds a ZIP archive and a 7Z archive, like this:
| description | type | rec level | nested fmap level |
| ------------------------- | ----- | --------- | ----------------- |
| baz.exe | PE | 0 | 0 |
| ├── sfx.zip | ZIP | 1 | 1 |
| │ └── hello.txt | ASCII | 2 | 0 |
| └── sfx.7z | 7Z | 1 | 1 |
| └── world.txt | ASCII | 2 | 0 |
(A) If we scan for embedded files at any layer, we may detect:
| description | type | rec level | nested fmap level |
| ------------------------- | ----- | --------- | ----------------- |
| foo.tar.gz | GZ | 0 | 0 |
| ├── foo.tar | TAR | 1 | 0 |
| │ ├── bar.zip | ZIP | 2 | 1 |
| │ │ └── hola.txt | ASCII | 3 | 0 |
| │ ├── baz.exe | PE | 2 | 1 |
| │ │ ├── sfx.zip | ZIP | 3 | 1 |
| │ │ │ └── hello.txt | ASCII | 4 | 0 |
| │ │ └── sfx.7z | 7Z | 3 | 1 |
| │ │ └── world.txt | ASCII | 4 | 0 |
| │ ├── sfx.zip | ZIP | 2 | 1 |
| │ │ └── hello.txt | ASCII | 3 | 0 |
| │ └── sfx.7z | 7Z | 2 | 1 |
| │ └── world.txt | ASCII | 3 | 0 |
| ├── sfx.zip | ZIP | 1 | 1 |
| └── sfx.7z | 7Z | 1 | 1 |
(A) is bad because it scans content more than once.
Note that for the GZ layer, it may detect the ZIP and 7Z if the
signature hits on the compressed data, which it might, though
extracting the ZIP and 7Z will likely fail.
The reason the above doesn't happen now is that we restrict embedded
type scans for a bunch of archive formats to include GZ and TAR.
(B) If we scan for embedded files at the foo.tar layer, we may detect:
| description | type | rec level | nested fmap level |
| ------------------------- | ----- | --------- | ----------------- |
| foo.tar.gz | GZ | 0 | 0 |
| └── foo.tar | TAR | 1 | 0 |
| ├── bar.zip | ZIP | 2 | 1 |
| │ └── hola.txt | ASCII | 3 | 0 |
| ├── baz.exe | PE | 2 | 1 |
| ├── sfx.zip | ZIP | 2 | 1 |
| │ └── hello.txt | ASCII | 3 | 0 |
| └── sfx.7z | 7Z | 2 | 1 |
| └── world.txt | ASCII | 3 | 0 |
(B) is almost right. But we can achieve it easily enough only scanning for
embedded content in the current fmap when the "nested fmap level" is 0.
The upside is that it should safely detect all embedded content, even if
it may think the sfz.zip and sfx.7z are in foo.tar instead of in baz.exe.
The biggest risk I can think of affects ZIPs. SFXZIP detection
is identical to ZIP detection, which is why we don't allow SFXZIP to be
detected if insize of a ZIP. If we only allow embedded type scanning at
fmap-layer 0 in each buffer, this will fail to detect the embedded ZIP
if the bar.exe was not compressed in foo.zip and if non-compressed files
extracted from ZIPs aren't extracted as new buffers:
| description | type | rec level | nested fmap level |
| ------------------------- | ----- | --------- | ----------------- |
| foo.zip | ZIP | 0 | 0 |
| └── bar.exe | PE | 1 | 1 |
| └── sfx.zip | ZIP | 2 | 2 |
Provided that we ensure all files extracted from zips are scanned in
new buffers, option (B) should be safe.
(C) If we scan for embedded files at the baz.exe layer, we may detect:
| description | type | rec level | nested fmap level |
| ------------------------- | ----- | --------- | ----------------- |
| foo.tar.gz | GZ | 0 | 0 |
| └── foo.tar | TAR | 1 | 0 |
| ├── bar.zip | ZIP | 2 | 1 |
| │ └── hola.txt | ASCII | 3 | 0 |
| └── baz.exe | PE | 2 | 1 |
| ├── sfx.zip | ZIP | 3 | 1 |
| │ └── hello.txt | ASCII | 4 | 0 |
| └── sfx.7z | 7Z | 3 | 1 |
| └── world.txt | ASCII | 4 | 0 |
(C) is right. But it's harder to achieve. For this example we can get it by
restricting 7ZSFX and ZIPSFX detection only when scanning an executable.
But that may mean losing detection of archives embedded elsewhere.
And we'd have to identify allowable container types for each possible
embedded type, which would be very difficult.
So this commit aims to solve the issue the (B)-way.
Note that in all situations, we still have to scan with file typing
enabled to determine if we need to reassign the current file type, such
as re-identifying a Bzip2 archive as a DMG that happens to be Bzip2-
compressed. Detection of DMG and a handful of other types rely on
finding data partway through or near the ned of a file before
reassigning the entire file as the new type.
Other fixes and considerations in this commit:
- The utf16 HTML parser has weak error handling, particularly with respect
to creating a nested fmap for scanning the ascii decoded file.
This commit cleans up the error handling and wraps the nested scan with
the recursion-stack push()/pop() for correct recursion tracking.
Before this commit, each container layer had a flag to indicate if the
container layer is valid.
We need something similar so that the cli_recursion_stack_get_*()
functions ignore normalized layers. Details...
Imagine an LDB signature for HTML content that specifies a ZIP
container. If the signature actually alerts on the normalized HTML and
you don't ignore normalized layers for the container check, it will
appear as though the alert is in an HTML container rather than a ZIP
container.
This commit accomplishes this with a boolean you set in the scan context
before scanning a new layer. Then when the new fmap is created, it will
use that flag to set similar flag for the layer. The context flag is
reset those that anything after this doesn't have that flag.
The flag allows the new recursion_stack_get() function to ignore
normalized layers when iterating the stack to return a layer at a
requested index, negative or positive.
Scanning normalized extracted/normalized javascript and VBA should also
use the 'layer is normalized' flag.
- This commit also fixes Heuristic.Broken.Executable alert for ELF files
to make sure that:
A) these only alert if cli_append_virus() returns CL_VIRUS (aka it
respects the FP check).
B) all broken-executable alerts for ELF only happen if the
SCAN_HEURISTIC_BROKEN option is enabled.
- This commit also cleans up the error handling in cli_magic_scan_dir().
This was needed so we could correctly apply the layer-is-normalized-flag
to all VBA macros extracted to a directory when scanning the directory.
- Also fix an issue where exceeding scan maximums wouldn't cause embedded
file detection scans to abort. Granted we don't actually want to abort
if max filesize or max recursion depth are exceeded... only if max
scansize, max files, and max scantime are exceeded.
Add 'abort_scan' flag to scan context, to protect against depending on
correct error propagation for fatal conditions. Instead, setting this
flag in the scan context should guarantee that a fatal condition deep in
scan recursion isn't lost which result in more stuff being scanned
instead of aborting. This shouldn't be necessary, but some status codes
like CL_ETIMEOUT never used to be fatal and it's easier to do this than
to verify every parser only returns CL_ETIMEOUT and other "fatal
status codes" in fatal conditions.
- Remove duplicate is_tar() prototype from filestypes.c and include
is_tar.h instead.
- Presently we create the fmap hash when creating the fmap.
This wastes a bit of CPU if the hash is never needed.
Now that we're creating fmap's for all embedded files discovered with
file type recognition scans, this is a much more frequent occurence and
really slows things down.
This commit fixes the issue by only creating fmap hashes as needed.
This should not only resolve the perfomance impact of creating fmap's
for all embedded files, but also should improve performance in general.
- Add allmatch check to the zip parser after the central-header meta
match. That way we don't multiple alerts with the same match except in
allmatch mode. Clean up error handling in the zip parser a tiny bit.
- Fixes to ensure that the scan limits such as scansize, filesize,
recursion depth, # of embedded files, and scantime are always reported
if AlertExceedsMax (--alert-exceeds-max) is enabled.
- Fixed an issue where non-fatal alerts for exceeding scan maximums may
mask signature matches later on. I changed it so these alerts use the
"possibly unwanted" alert-type and thus only alert if no other alerts
were found or if all-match or heuristic-precedence are enabled.
- Added the "Heuristics.Limits.Exceeded.*" events to the JSON metadata
when the --gen-json feature is enabled. These will show up once under
"ParseErrors" the first time a limit is exceeded. In the present
implementation, only one limits-exceeded events will be added, so as to
prevent a malicious or malformed sample from filling the JSON buffer
with millions of events and using a tonne of RAM.
This addresses a regression with sample 848092559:
LDB sig (Win.Virus.Virut-5898123-1) that uses 'NumberOfSections:3-3'
started matching on a PE that has 4 sections, but one is totally outside
of the file and gets removed. Previously, two of the ClamAV PE header
parsing implementations handled this case differently, and the NDB/LDB
matching code would be told there were 4 sections while the bytecode
and unpacking code would only see 3 sections. When consolidating the
PE header parsing code, I made it so that the section always gets
removed.
For now we just replicate the original behavior by providing a new
flag to the PE header parsing code. We should re-evaluate the effects
that this has later, once we have better tests for the bytecode API
and we have test samples for each of the hardcoded detection cases in
cli_scanpe.
Also, fixes some memory leaks based on the changes in my last commit x_x
Also, move the cert-related DCONF cfg checks to more
appropriate locations. One change in behavior:
PE_CONF_CATALOG will disable loading trusted hashes from
.cat files, but won't disable Authenticode hash checking
completely (PE_CONF_CERTS does this).
Instead of checking the Authenticode header as an FP prevention
mechanism, we now check it in the beginning if it exists. Also,
we can now do actual blacklisting with .crb rules (previously, a
blacklist rule just let you override a whitelist rule).
cli_checkfp_pe is now effectively the function that just checks
the Authenticode hash. This makes the code less complicated,
and adds some minor improvements:
- section hashes are no longer computed if there is no stats
callback function (at least in that part of the code)
- We now actually set the len field in the stats_section_t
structure
- If an error occurs when computing a section hash, we skip
that section instead of not computing any hashes
Consolidate the PE parsing code into one function. I tried to preserve all existing functionality from the previous, distinct implementations to a large extent (with the exceptions mentioned below). If I noticed potential bugs/improvements, I added a TODO statement about those so that they can be fixed in a smaller commit later. Also, there are more TODOs in places where I'm not entirely sure why certain actions are performed - more research is needed for these.
I'm submitting a pull request now so that regression testing can be done, and because merging what I have thus far now will likely have fewer conflicts than if I try to merge later
PE parsing code improvements:
- PEs without all 16 data directories are parsed more appropriately now
- Added lots more debug statements
Also:
- Allow MAX_BC and MAX_TRACKED_PCRE to be specified via CFLAGS
When doing performance testing with the latest CVD, MAX_BC and
MAX_TRACKED_PCRE need to be raised to track all the events.
Allow these to be specified via CFLAGS by not redefining them
if they are already defined
- Fix an issue preventing wildcard sizes in .MDB/.MSB rules
I'm not sure what the original intent of the check I removed was,
but it prevents using wildcard sizes in .MDB/.MSB rules. AFAICT
these wildcard sizes should be handled appropriately by the MD5
section hash computation code, so I don't think a check on that
is needed.
- Fix several issues related to db loading
- .imp files will now get loaded if they exist in a directory passed
via clamscan's '-d' flag
- .pwdb files will now get loaded if they exist in a directory passed
via clamscan's '-d' flag even when compiling without yara support
- Changes to .imp, .ign, and .ign2 files will now be reflected in calls
to cl_statinidir and cl_statchkdir (and also .pwdb files, even when
compiling without yara support)
- The contents of .sfp files won't be included in some of the signature
counts, and the contents of .cud files will be
- Any local.gdb files will no longer be loaded twice
- For .imp files, you are no longer required to specify a minimum flevel for wildcard rules, since this isn't needed
This commit adds back in support for whitelisting files based on
signatures from .cat files loaded in via a '-d' flag to clamscan.
This also makes it so that a .crb blacklist rule match can't be
overruled by a signature in a .cat file
The following changes were made
- The code to calculate the authenticode hash was not properly
accounting for the case where a PE had sections that either
overlapped with each other or overlapped with the PE header.
One common case for this is UPX-packed binaries, where the
first section with data on disk starts at offset 0x400, which
overlaps with the specified PE header by 0xC00 bytes.
- The code didn't wrap accesses to fields in the Security
DataDirectory with EC32(), so it seems likely that authenticode
parsing always encountered issues on big endian systems. I
think I fixed all of the accesses in cli_checkfp_pe, but there
might still be issues here. I'll test this further.
- We parse the authenticode data header to better ensure that it's
PCKS7 we are trying to parse, and not one of the other types
- cli_checkfp_pe should now finish faster in the case where there
is no authenticode data and we don't want to compute the section
hashes.
- Fixed a potential memory leak in one cli_checkfp_pe failure case
Micah Snyder