VirusTotal flagging latest darwin-arm64 binary as malware

[tedsilb]

Bug Description

Hi, just flagging that VirusTotal detects the latest darwin-arm64 binary
(hash 9e47a9cbd96d572b1fd51e9902e1c2a449c43e55cdd038f77941d795c603b639) as containing malware (Google: Ikarus - Trojan.OSX.Psw). I reanalyzed on VirusTotal and it produced the same finding.

VirusTotal link: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9e47a9cbd96d572b1fd51e9902e1c2a449c43e55cdd038f77941d795c603b639/detection/f-9e47a9cbd96d572b1fd51e9902e1c2a449c43e55cdd038f77941d795c603b639-1695370063

Example code (or command)

No response

Stacktrace

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Steps to reproduce?

scan with virustotal

Environment

darwin-arm64

Additional Details

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[enocom]

Thanks @tedsilb. I'll investigate and respond here.

[enocom]

Bumping this down as it appears to be a false positive. Investigating further.

[enocom]

This is definitely a false positive, but it's still concerning that it's happening.

[enocom]

Possibly related to podman-desktop/podman-desktop#3861.

[enocom]

Just to be clear:

1. All our builds are completed on Cloud Build using latest Go and source only. There are no binaries included in our build.
2. We run govulncheck against every commit.
3. We use container scanning for every release.

Our latest release has no reported vulnerabilities by govulncheck or in our default image (based on distroless). It's not clear what's getting flagged in VirusTotal, but we have reason to believe this is a false positive.

[enocom]

And to add on, clamav does not report these problems in either of the Darwin binaries.

[enocom]

I suspect we might be getting flagged because we don't notarize the binary with Apple. This might be a duplicate in effect of #1712.

[hessjcg]

In reading the VirusTotal behavior report carefully for the amd64 binary, the virus total test result shows our binary attempting to access /etc/master.passwd and the wifi settings.

Of course, I tried to reproduce this behavior and could not because our binary does not actually do these things.

The virustotal scan details Shows that the various sensitive files like /etc/master.passwd and /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist were opened by macosx components. They weren't opened by our process.

We are investigating how to reach VirusTotal to verify that this is a false positive result.

[enocom]

Confirmed. This was a false positive across a few security scanners.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/04cea1a08be2bbbe8bd07e2b2e5430f88d627aa1839fdc8efd2092dd89c6f8de/