Difference between revisions of "OWASP Web Malware Scanner Project"

OWASP Web Malware Scanner Tool Project

The OWASP Web Malware Scanner is a malware scanner for web applications. The goal is to be able to scan a web application using a community driven signature database. The Web Malware Scanner works by scanning each files of the web application for known malwares.

The Web Malware Scanner is not a vulnerability scanner, it is a malware scanner used to identify compromised web application installations.

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 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 malware patterns using regular expressions. Finally, the scan will look for insecure permissions for every files and folders.

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

News and Events

• [01 Jun 2016] Working on version 1.0; New GUI, Automatic updates, new signature database, Standalone application for Windows, Linux and MacOS

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