Haskell Platform 8.2.2 - virus?

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Thu Dec 28 21:29:44 UTC 2017


This wouldn't be the first time some program that uses heuristic execution
patterns to detect malware decided it didn't like the STG.

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Matthew Lamari <matt.lamari at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> The site gave me the 5ffdaa sha256 you have below for touchy.exe.
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> That said, I still have the 2 builds yield different results from Hitman
> Pro on the clean boxes. And Bitdefender, on my machine, (albeit being
> obtuse) chucks a fit over it. It doesn't detect the EXE files; but detects
> secondary consequences of them running.
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> *I really think something is afoot here.*
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> On 12/28/2017 3:00 PM, lonetiger at gmail.com wrote:
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> Upload one of the binaries it flagged to https://www.virustotal.com/en/
> and send the link.
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> As far as I can tell, they’re all clean
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> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9cc2a6032dde8d8ab572f949104124
> 2ab4c76d2b7d36eea5283c82cf9bf9fd69/analysis/
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> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5ffdaa7da4381637ab2a0ec327118c
> d933398a477430e2f5d94e9d53c53f2782/analysis/
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> *From: *Matthew Lamari <matt.lamari at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, December 28, 2017 20:29
> *To: *ghc-devs at haskell.org
> *Subject: *Haskell Platform 8.2.2 - virus?
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> New Haskell install was tripping my Bitdefender like crazy and in weird
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> ways - not new as that's how bitdefender rolls. However, I retested in a
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> clean test, with (free) Hitman Pro
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> I started from a base case with 2 clean windows 8 VMs.
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> New 8.2.2 install - has virus
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> Old 8.0.2 Jan 2017 - no virus
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> According to Hitman Pro, touchy.exe, haddock-8.2.2, ghc-8.2.2.exe, and
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> unlit.exe have some problem post-install. I went no further on the VMs.
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> "Detection Names
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> Kaspersky           Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Paph.fsv
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> "
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> Bitdefender didn't get it on install but would lock the whole thing down
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> on the first run of "Cabal".
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