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Wasfi_182818
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Mar 05, 2016

How does the ASM deal with devious file types

Hi

 

For file types that pretend to be what they not really are. for example an exe pretending to be a gif, how does the ASM deal with this violation?

 

Kindly Wasfi

 

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    • Wasfi_182818's avatar
      Wasfi_182818
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      Hi Vijith I agree. I think this is a job for the ICAP server. Thank you. Kindly Wasfi
    • Hussein_Ghazy_3's avatar
      Hussein_Ghazy_3
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      Yep i think it is the ICAP. We forward all uploaded files to ICAP to check them. Not sure if that can be done by the ASM....
  • ASM verifies MIME types. So simply changing a file extension from .exe to .gif will not defeat true file type detection. The same concept applies to allowing or disallowing file uploads.