How can I download malware samples from this site automatically?
Submitted by sherwood on Tue, 2012-08-07 06:52.
Malware | Sample Requests
Hello everyone,
I am a computer science Ph.D. student from FIU in U.S. and my research area is system security. I need a large number of malware samples(about 3000) for Windows. I want to know is it posible for me to download malware samples from this site automatically(e.g., using a batch script)?
Thanks,
Feng
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Not able to get it to work
Submitted by suniljoseph on Wed, 2012-09-19 11:46.
Hi,
I am not very good at linux, but I am interested in Malware Analysis. I tried this script.
Copied it to text editor. Saved it as script.sh
chmod 700 and tried to run it.
script.sh: line 11: /usr/share/malware/: Is a directory
URL expected after -dump
Edit: Figured out the prob. Timezone. Its working great.. thanks :-)
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Here is a bash script I
Here is a bash script I whipped up to download executables on an hourly basis from Clean MX's mailing list. This places all samples in a folder I created in /usr/share/malware
rootdir="/usr/share/malware" day=`date +%Y%m%d` url=`echo "wget -qO - http://lists.clean-mx.com/pipermail/viruswatch/$day/thread.html |\ awk '/\[Virus/'|tail -n 1|sed 's:\": :g' |\ awk '{print \"http://lists.clean-mx.com/pipermail/viruswatch/$day/\"$3}'"|sh` filename=`wget -qO - http://lists.clean-mx.com/pipermail/viruswatch/$day/thread.html |\ awk '/\[Virus/'|tail -n 1|sed 's:": :g' |awk '{print $3}'` links -dump $url$filename | awk '/Up/'|grep "TR\|exe" | awk '{print $2,$8,$10,$11,$12"\n"}' > $rootdir/$filename dirname=`wget -qO - http://lists.clean-mx.com/pipermail/viruswatch/$day/thread.html |\ awk '/\[Virus/'|tail -n 1|sed 's:": :g' |awk '{print $3}'|sed 's:.html::g'` rm -rf $rootdir/$dirname mkdir $rootdir/$dirname cd $rootdir grep "exe$" $filename |awk '{print "wget \""$5"\""}' | sh ls *.exe | xargs md5 >> checksums mv *.exe $dirname rm -r $rootdir/*exe* mv checksums $rootdir/$dirname mv $filename $rootdir/$dirname