Details
Interpreted viruses are executed by an application. Within this subcategory, macro viruses take advantage of the capabilities of applications’ macro programming language to infect application documents and document templates, while scripting viruses infect scripts that are understood by scripting languages processed by services on the OS. Many attackers use toolkits containing several different types of utilities and scripts that can be used to probe and attack hosts. Scanning for unknown macro viruses will mitigate zero-day attacks.
Solution
From the ePO server console System Tree, select ‘My Organization’. Select the ‘Systems’ tab. To show all systems in the System Tree, select ‘This Group and All Subgroups’ from the ‘Preset:’ drop-down list.
From the list of systems, locate the asset representing the Linux system being reviewed. Click on the system to open the System Information page.
Click on Actions >> Agent >> Modify Policies on a Single System.
From the ‘Product:’ drop-down list, select ‘VirusScan Enterprise for Linux 1.9.x/2.0.x’.
From the ‘Policy’ column, click on the policy for the ‘On-Access Scanning Policy’.
In the ‘Advanced’ tab, next to ‘Heuristics:’, select the check box for ‘Find unknown macro viruses’.
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Information Integrity.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.
References
- 800-53|SI-3c.2.
- CAT|II
- CCI|CCI-001243
- Rule-ID|SV-77495r1_rule
- STIG-ID|DTAVSEL-006
- Vuln-ID|V-63005