The McAfee MOVE AV Agentless Scan policy for Heuristics must be configured to find unknown unwanted programs and Trojans.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-48857	AV-MOVE-SVA-110	SV-61735r2_rule		Medium

Description
Due to the ability of malware to mutate after infection, standard antivirus signatures may not be able to catch new strains or variants of the malware. Typically, these strains and variants will share unique characteristics with others in their virus family. By using a generic signature to detect the shared characteristics, using wildcards where differences lie, the generic signature can detect viruses even if they are padded with extra, meaningless code. This method of detection is Heuristic detection.

Description

Due to the ability of malware to mutate after infection, standard antivirus signatures may not be able to catch new strains or variants of the malware. Typically, these strains and variants will share unique characteristics with others in their virus family. By using a generic signature to detect the shared characteristics, using wildcards where differences lie, the generic signature can detect viruses even if they are padded with extra, meaningless code. This method of detection is Heuristic detection.

STIG	Date
McAfee MOVE Agentless 3.0/3.6.1 Security Virtual Appliance STIG	2016-04-05

Details

Check Text ( C-49464r3_chk )
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 McAfee MOVE Security Virtual Appliance (SVA). 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 MOVE AV [Agentless] 3.0.0/3.6.1. Locate "Scan" under the "Category" column and select the policy corresponding to it, found under the "Policy" column. In the Scan Items tab of the Policy Settings, next to the "Heuristics:", verify the checkbox for "Find unknown unwanted programs and trojans" is selected. If the checkbox for "Heuristics: Find unknown unwanted programs and trojans" is not selected, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-49464r3_chk )

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 McAfee MOVE Security Virtual Appliance (SVA). 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 MOVE AV [Agentless] 3.0.0/3.6.1. Locate "Scan" under the "Category" column and select the policy corresponding to it, found under the "Policy" column.

In the Scan Items tab of the Policy Settings, next to the "Heuristics:", verify the checkbox for "Find unknown unwanted programs and trojans" is selected.

If the checkbox for "Heuristics: Find unknown unwanted programs and trojans" is not selected, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-49576r3_fix)
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 McAfee MOVE Security Virtual Appliance (SVA). 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 "MOVE AV [Agentless] 3.0.0/3.6.1". Locate "Scan" under the "Category" column and select the policy corresponding to it, found under the "Policy" column. In the Scan Items tab of the Policy Settings, next to the "Heuristics:", select the checkbox for "Find unknown unwanted programs and trojans". Click on Save.

Fix Text (F-49576r3_fix)

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 McAfee MOVE Security Virtual Appliance (SVA). 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 "MOVE AV [Agentless] 3.0.0/3.6.1". Locate "Scan" under the "Category" column and select the policy corresponding to it, found under the "Policy" column.

In the Scan Items tab of the Policy Settings, next to the "Heuristics:", select the checkbox for "Find unknown unwanted programs and trojans".

Click on Save.