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This page is where you should indicate what is the minimum set of functionality that is required to make this a useful product that addresses your core security concern.
 
Defining this information helps the project leader to think about what is the critical functionality that a user needs for this project to be useful, thereby helping determine what the priorities should be on the roadmap.  And it also helps reviewers who are evaluating the project to determine if the functionality sufficiently provides the critical functionality to determine if the project should be promoted to the next project category. 
 
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The Tool Project Template must specify the minimum set of tabs a project should have, provide some an example layout on each tab, provide instructional text on how a project leader should modify the tab, and give some example text that illustrates how to create an actual project.
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We feel that the signature database is the most important aspect of this project. If the database is updated often with new signatures, this project will remain useful.
 
 
It would also be ideal if the sample text was translated into different languages.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 15:03, 4 March 2016

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OWASP Tool Project Template

The OWASP Web Malware Scanner is a malware scanner for web applications. The goal is to be able to scan a web application folder for any malware using a community driven signature database. The Web Malware Scanner is run locally to the web application folder much like an anti-virus. This project was created because the ClamAV project and other similar open source tools were unable to detect some infected files on some of our production servers and we needed a solution to scan our web applications with better results.

The deliverable is a python application.

Description

Web Malware Scanner is a simple malware scanner for web applications. It can be used to identify compromised Wordpress, Joomla and other popular web application installations.

The Web Malware Scanner must be run locally to the web application installation folder. It will scan each files and compare them to the Web Malware Scanner's signature database. Each file is scanned for any known malware MD5 checksum and also for any regular expression based malware signatures.

The Web Malware Scanner Project uses regular expressions to search files for malware signatures as opposed to the custom ClamAV signature database wildcard syntax, which is somewhat more limited.

The ClamAV custom wildcard syntax only includes the following wildcards: ?? Matches any byte. * Matches any number of bytes (including 0 byte). {n} Matches n bytes. {-n} Matches n bytes or less. {n-} Matches at least n bytes. {m-n} Matches between m and n bytes. (0a|1b) Matches 0a or 1b.

The Web Malware Scanner project uses standard regular expressions for a much wider range of matching patterns.

The default signature database is taken in parts from ClamAV's signature database, SaneSecurity's signature database and other sources.

The goal of the OWASP Web Malware Scanner Project is to have a community driven signature database. You are more than welcome to contribute to this project by sending us new malware signatures.

Licensing

The Web Malware Scanner Project is released under the BSD 4-clause "Original" or "Old" License.

Project Resources

https://github.com/maxlabelle/WebMalwareScanner

Source Code

Documentation

Issue Tracker

Project Leader

Maxime Labelle ( maxime.labelle@owasp.org )

Classifications

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Affero General Public License 3.0

News and Events

  • [04 Mar 2016] The Web Malware Scanner is now an official OWASP Project