[monit] Monit False Positives

[Art Age Software]

I've been seeing a lot of false positives coming out of monit.
Generally, they come as a pair of  Checksum failed/Permission failed
for a file, which other files have a dependency on. So, a chain of
unmonitor actions occurs as a result. But when I check the file, the
permissions are just fine.

Here is an example:

Description: 'config_conf' checksum test failed for /etc/config.conf
Description: 'config_conf' permission test failed for /etc/config.conf
-- current permission is 0000

# ls -l /etc/config.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 862 Jul  9 23:40 /etc/config.conf

Does anybody know why monit would report the permissions are "0000"
when they are clearly 644?

Running monit version 4.10.1

Thanks.