On Wednesday 28 October 2015 21:12:19 Ned Slider wrote:
On 28/10/15 11:55, Gary Stainburn wrote:
We are receiving LOTS of emails that contain empty XLS or DOC documents with embedded virus macros. These are getting past SPAMASSASSIN, Clamav and Kaspersky.
I'm trying to write a filter for EXIM to block these emails but I need to know a good, quick, command-line to detect an empty doc with a macro.
Is there anything available that I can use??
I have managed to write a PERL script to detect empty xls xlsx, doc and docx files but I cannot detect whether they have any macros embedded
Gary
If you've got a script to detect empty docs then it should be relatively easy to detect these. I assume empty attachments are not normal in your mail flows?
I have come to the conculsiion that I am just going to have to stick with detecting empty documents and forget the macro checks.
I would look to write some custom SpamAssassin rules, maybe incorporating your script, to detect these and filter them out.
I would love to be able to write custom Spamassassin rules but do not know how to do this. All I have done in the past is add small pattern matching rules to local.cf
Another rule I would like to add to Spamassassin is to catch emails where the subject starts with the email local part in brackets as we get a LOT of those too.
Are you able to post some examples to pastebin?
http://www.stainburn.com/virus_files/I0000040777.doc http://www.stainburn.com/virus_files/FAX_20151028_1445421437_89.doc