bug#25278: Possible virus found in icecat-45.5.1

[dian_cecht]

Wanted to report a (possible) virus in icecat (45.5.1 for me, but someone on IRC
was using 45.3.0 with at least one identical checksum of one of the related
files). I'm not sure if this is a false positive, but I though it better to
report it than to ignore it. Better to draw attention to a nonissue than ignore
something dangerous.

I run clamdscan over my home directory daily and ran into a virus report using
it. I won't go into great detail of what I did, how, and why, but long story
short I removed any and all instances of the virus, rebooted, ran guix pull (I
had to remove files in /gnu/store because they were apparently infected. I
wasn't sure how or why, but I don't question viruses too much wrt what they can
and can't do), rescanned /gnu/store (which came out clean), then reinstalled
icecat. The relavant clamdscan output follows:

/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/features/address@hidden:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/omni.ja:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/features/address@hidden:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/omni.ja:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/omni.ja:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/omni.ja:
 Win.Trojan.Toa-5370166-0 FOUND

and for completeness sake, sha1sums of the files in question:


for i in $(cat pastebit-this.txt | cut -d':' -f1); do sha1sum $i; done
a0798a225f833c5fc495b7d34f842f6895430c05  
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden
660a532ab26271d807484745549eb50c96e1d17d  
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden
d1f71a8f48fb67096fd2317593662c93427ec200  
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden
2352c47726144e6f3b16dbbfd851767ec4da12f4  
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/features/address@hidden
f514044393bbcb35fd416f8934cc5796668880de  
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden
e33f82770d29052967ea554a64fa3c2abbaa654b  
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/omni.ja
660a532ab26271d807484745549eb50c96e1d17d  
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden
a0798a225f833c5fc495b7d34f842f6895430c05  
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden
d1f71a8f48fb67096fd2317593662c93427ec200  
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden
2352c47726144e6f3b16dbbfd851767ec4da12f4  
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/features/address@hidden
f514044393bbcb35fd416f8934cc5796668880de  
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/extensions/address@hidden
46a63a6d5a0fc94ee2646a6079cba38fb16715d9  
/gnu/store/4jv2jr91pl7p7gwsi4bincvd19gn29hi-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/omni.ja
e33f82770d29052967ea554a64fa3c2abbaa654b  
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/browser/omni.ja
46a63a6d5a0fc94ee2646a6079cba38fb16715d9  
/gnu/store/90xjd0x6hylkcxhf3gg3xjzf5sm2aj4d-icecat-45.5.1-gnu1/lib/icecat-45.5.1/omni.ja

I'm hoping this is a false positive. I run Guix ontop of Gentoo and have also
found the same Trojan appearing in Firefox-related files in my home directory,
as well as in Wine directories (I didn't record the exact directories, but I
think they were something like ../drive_c/windows/sys?????/gecko/ or something
like that. Don't trust this 100%).