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Add OLE detection to SpamAssassin without ClamAV
Note: currently subject to https://github.com/JonathanThorpe/spamassassin-vba-macro/issues/15
author | IBBoard <dev@ibboard.co.uk> |
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date | Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:54:30 +0000 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/common/spamassassin-vba-macro-master/README.md Thu Feb 09 20:54:30 2017 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +# SpamAssassin Plugin for detecting VBA/OLE2 Macros in Word/Excel Documents + +SpamAssassin plugin for detecting VBA macros in Microsoft Office Documents, including those contained within ZIP archives. + +## Motivation ## + +This plugin was built in response to increasing phishing/malware found in Microsoft Word and Excel Documents that seems to get past the majority of Virus Scanners when new waves first start. + +Most installations running SpamAssassin also run ClamAV and while ClamAV has a configuration option to block OLE2Macros (OLE2BlockMacros), this doesn't work well in practice because surprisingly, some people still send emails with legitimate VBA Macros. + +This plugin is designed to crudely (but so far, effectively) identify VBA/OLE2 Macros embedded in Microsoft Word and Excel Documents by looking at a signature in the file only present when VBA Macros are used and allows you to assign a configurable score to these documents such that other factors can contribute to an overall score before considering the email spam. + +## Dependencies ## + +This module requires the following Perl modules to be installed: +* IO::Uncompress::Unzip +* IO::Scalar + +In order to detect VBA/Macro-enabled formats (i.e. .docm) disguised as classic Microsoft Office formats by renaming the files, it's recommended you also install: +* File::MimeInfo::Magic + +## Installation ## + +Simply place the following in your SpamAssassin configuration file along with the ole2macro.pm in a directory where SpamAssassin is able to find it (i.e. /etc/spamassassin). For instance ```/etc/spamassassin/conf.d/90_ole2macro.cf``` + +``` +loadplugin OLE2Macro ole2macro.pm + +body MICROSOFT_OLE2MACRO eval:check_microsoft_ole2macro() +describe MICROSOFT_OLE2MACRO Has an attachment that contains an OLE2 Macro +score MICROSOFT_OLE2MACRO 4 +``` + +In most cases, you will want to adjust the score accordingly, however, with a cut-off score of 5.5, 4.0 as described above has worked well in a production environment with diverse users.