Anti-malware

Sentinel is powered by Linux Malware Detect. Linux Malware Detect uses multifaceted threat data from network edge IPS, community data, ClamAV, and user submission systems to extract malware that is actively being used in attacks. The threat landscape in todays hosted environments is unique from that of the standard AV products detection suite in that they are detecting primarily OS level trojans, rootkits and traditional file-infecting viruses but missing the ever increasing variety of malware on the user account level which serves as an attack platform.

Features

• MD5 file hash detection for quick threat identification
• HEX based pattern matching for identifying threat variants
• statistical analysis component for detection of obfuscated threats (e.g: base64)
• integrated detection of ClamAV to use as scanner engine for improved performance
• integrated signature update feature
• integrated version update feature
• scan-recent option to scan only files that have been added/changed in X days
• scan-all option for full path based scanning
• checkout option to upload suspected malware to rfxn.com for review / hashing
• full reporting system to view current and previous scan results
• quarantine queue that stores threats in a safe fashion with no permissions
• quarantine batching option to quarantine the results of a current or past scans
• quarantine restore option to restore files to original path, owner and perms
• quarantine suspend account option
• cleaner rules to attempt removal of malware injected strings
• cleaner rules to remove base64 and gzinflate(base64 injected malware)
• daily cron based scanning of all changes in last 24h in user homedirs
• kernel based inotify real time file scanning of created/modified/moved files
• kernel inotify monitor that can take path data from STDIN or FILE
• kernel inotify monitor convenience feature to monitor system users
• kernel inotify monitor can be restricted to a configurable user html root
• kernel inotify monitor with dynamic sysctl limits for optimal performance
• kernel inotify alerting through daily and/or optional weekly reports
• e-mail alert reporting after every scan execution (manual & daily)
• path, extension and signature based ignore options
• background scanner option for unattended scan operations
• verbose logging & output of all actions

Command line interface

# /usr/local/maldetect/maldet --help
Linux Malware Detect v1.6.2
            (C) 2002-2017, R-fx Networks <proj@rfxn.com>
            (C) 2017, Ryan MacDonald <ryan@rfxn.com>
This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2

signature set: 201806206951
usage /usr/local/sbin/maldet [ OPTION ]
    -b, --background
      Execute operations in the background, ideal for large scans
      e.g: maldet -b -r /home/?/public_html 7

    -u, --update-sigs [--force]
       Update malware detection signatures from rfxn.com

    -d, --update-ver [--force]
       Update the installed version from rfxn.com

    -f, --file-list
       Scan files or paths defined in line spaced file
       e.g: maldet -f /root/scan_file_list

    -r, --scan-recent PATH DAYS
       Scan files created/modified in the last X days (default: 7d, wildcard: ?)
       e.g: maldet -r /home/?/public_html 2

    -a, --scan-all PATH
       Scan all files in path (default: /home, wildcard: ?)
       e.g: maldet -a /home/?/public_html

    -i, --include-regex REGEX
       Include paths/files from file list based on supplied posix-egrep regular
       expression.
       e.g: To include only paths named wp-content and files ending in .php:
       --include-regex ".*/wp-content/.*|.*.php$"

    -x, --exclude-regex REGEX
       Exclude paths/files from file list based on supplied posix-egrep regular
       expression.
       e.g: To exclude paths containing 'wp-content/w3tc/' and core files:
       --exclude-regex ".*wp-content/w3tc/.*|.*core.[0-9]+$"

    -m, --monitor USERS|PATHS|FILE|RELOAD
       Run maldet with inotify kernel level file create/modify monitoring
       If USERS is specified, monitor user homedirs for UID's > 500
       If FILE is specified, paths will be extracted from file, line spaced
       If PATHS are specified, must be comma spaced list, NO WILDCARDS!
       e.g: maldet --monitor users
       e.g: maldet --monitor /root/monitor_paths
       e.g: maldet --monitor /home/mike,/home/ashton

    -k, --kill-monitor
       Terminate inotify monitoring service

    -c, --checkout FILE
       Upload suspected malware to rfxn.com for review & hashing into signatures

    -l, --log
       View maldet log file events

    -e, --report SCANID email
       View scan report of most recent scan or of a specific SCANID and optionally
       e-mail the report to a supplied e-mail address
       e.g: maldet --report
       e.g: maldet --report list
       e.g: maldet --report 050910-1534.21135
       e.g: maldet --report SCANID user@domain.com

    -s, --restore FILE|SCANID
       Restore file from quarantine queue to orginal path or restore all items from
       a specific SCANID
       e.g: maldet --restore /usr/local/maldetect/quarantine/config.php.23754
       e.g: maldet --restore 050910-1534.21135

    -q, --quarantine SCANID
       Quarantine all malware from report SCANID
       e.g: maldet --quarantine 050910-1534.21135

    -n, --clean SCANID
       Try to clean & restore malware hits from report SCANID
       e.g: maldet --clean 050910-1534.21135

    -U, --user USER
       Set execution under specified user, ideal for restoring from user quarantine or
       to view user reports.
       e.g: maldet --user nobody --report
       e.g: maldet --user nobody --restore 050910-1534.21135

    -co, --config-option VAR1=VALUE,VAR2=VALUE,VAR3=VALUE
       Set or redefine the value of conf.maldet config options
       e.g: maldet --config-option email_addr=you@domain.com,quarantine_hits=1

    -p, --purge
       Clear logs, quarantine queue, session and temporary data.

    --web-proxy IP:PORT
       Enable use of HTTP/HTTPS proxy for all remote URL calls. 

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