ClamAV(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation ClamAV(3)NAMEMail::ClamAV - Perl extension for the clamav virus scanner
SYNOPSIS
use Mail::ClamAV qw/:all/;
# $Mail::ClamAV::Error in numeric context return clamav's
# error status code which corresponds to the constants which
# can be exported
my $c = new Mail::ClamAV("/path/to/directory/or/file")
or die "Failed to load db: $Mail::ClamAV::Error (", 0+$Mail::;
# You can get retdbdir() to get the database dir in
# clamav's conf
my $c = new Mail::ClamAV(retdbdir())
or die "Failed to load db: $Mail::ClamAV::Error";
# When database is loaded, you must create the proper trie with:
$c->build or die "Failed to build engine: $Mail::ClamAV::Error";
# check to see if we need to reload
if ($c->statchkdir) {
$c = new Mail::ClamAV(retdbdir());
$c->build or die "Failed to build engine: $Mail::ClamAV::Error";
}
# Set some limits (only applies to scan())
$c->maxreclevel(4);
$c->maxfiles(20);
$c->maxfilesize(1024 * 1024 * 20); # 20 megs
# Scan a filehandle (scandesc in clamav)
# scan(FileHandle or path, Bitfield of options)
my $status = $c->scan(FH, CL_SCAN_ARCHIVE|CL_SCAN_MAIL);
# Scan a file (scanfile in clamav)
my $status = $c->scan("/path/to/file.eml", CL_SCAN_MAIL);
# $status is an overloaded object
die "Failed to scan: $status" unless $status;
if ($status->virus) {
print "Message is a virus: $status\n";
}
else {
print "No virus found!\n";
}
DESCRIPTION
Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX
<http://www.clamav.com/>. This module provide a simple interface to
its C API.
EXPORT
None by default.
Exportable constants
Options for scanning.
CL_SCAN_STDOPT
This is an alias for a recommended set of scan options. You should use
it to make your software ready for new features in the future versions
of libclamav.
CL_SCAN_RAW
Use it alone if you want to disable support for special files.
CL_SCAN_ARCHIVE
This flag enables transparent scanning of various archive formats.
CL_SCAN_BLOCKENCRYPTED
With this flag the library will mark encrypted archives as viruses
(Encrypted.Zip, Encrypted.RAR).
CL_SCAN_BLOCKMAX
Mark archives as viruses if maxfiles, maxfilesize, or maxreclevel
limit is reached.
CL_SCAN_MAIL
Enable support for mail files.
CL_SCAN_MAILURL
The mail scanner will download and scan URLs listed in a mail body.
This flag should not be used on loaded servers. Due to potential
problems please do not enable it by default but make it optional.
CL_SCAN_OLE2
Enables support for OLE2 containers (used by MS Office and .msi
files).
CL_SCAN_PE
This flag enables deep scanning of Portable Executable files and
allows libclamav to unpack executables compressed with run-time
unpackers.
CL_SCAN_ELF
Enable support for ELF files.
CL_SCAN_BLOCKBROKEN
libclamav will try to detect broken executables and mark them as
Broken.Executable.
CL_SCAN_HTML
This flag enables HTML normalisation (including ScrEnc decryption).
CL_SCAN_ALGORITHMIC
Enable algorithmic detection of viruses.
CL_SCAN_PHISHING_DOMAINLIST
With a minor version bump clamav development team removed this and
broke backwards compatibility, so it is no longer supported in this
module as of 0.22.
CL_SCAN_PHISHING_BLOCKSSL
Phishing module: always block SSL mismatches in URLs.
CL_SCAN_PHISHING_BLOCKCLOAK
Phishing module: always block cloaked URLs.
Status returns. You can get the status code by putting the status
object returned into into numeric context.
my $status = $c->scan("foo.txt");
print "Status: ", ($status + 0), "\n";
The following are returned statuses if no error occured.
CL_CLEAN
no viruses found
CL_VIRUS
virus found, put the status in scalar context to see the type
Error statuses
CL_EMAXREC
recursion limit exceeded
CL_EMAXSIZE
size limit exceeded
CL_EMAXFILES
files limit exceeded
CL_EACCES
access denied
CL_ENULLARG
null argument
CL_ETMPFILE
tmpfile() failed
CL_EMEM
memory allocation error
CL_EOPEN
file open error
CL_EMALFDB
malformed database
CL_ETMPDIR
mkdir() failed
CL_ECVD
not a CVD file (or broken)
CL_EFORMAT
bad format or broken file
CL_ENCINIT
NodalCore initialization failed
CL_ENCLOAD
error loading NodalCore database
CL_ENCIO
general NodalCore I/O error
Exportable functions
These function can be exported either individually or using the :all
export flags
retdbdir
This function returns the path to the database directory specified
when clamav was compiled.
METHODS
Settings
NOTE These settings only apply to "scan()" and archives
(CL_SCAN_ARCHIVE).
maxreclevel
Sets the maximum recursion level into archives [default 5].
maxmailrec
With a minor version bump clamav development team removed this and
broke backwards compatibility, so it is no longer supported in this
module as of 0.22.
maxfiles
Maximum number of files that will be scanned [default 1000]. A value
of zero disables the check.
maxfilesize
Maximum file size that will be scanned in bytes [default 10M]. A value
of zero disables the check.
maxratio
With a minor version bump clamav development team removed this and
broke backwards compatibility, so it is no longer supported in this
module as of 0.22.
Scanning
All of these methods return a status object. This object is overloaded
to make things cleaner. In boolean context this will return false if
there was an error. For example:
my $status = $c->scan("foo.txt");
die "Error scanning: $status" unless $status;
As you probably just noticed, $status in scalar context returns the
error message. In addition to the overloading you just saw, $status has
the following methods:
errno
The numeric value (if any) clamav returned.
clean
This will be true if the message was not a virus and an error did not
occur.
virus
Returns true if the message is a virus.
error
Return the error message (if any). This is the same thing as quoting
$status.
count
Returns the number of messages scanned. Only works with archives.
scan(FileHandle or Path, Bitfield of options)
"scan()" takes a FileHanle or path and passed the file descriptor for
that off to clamav. The second argument is a bitfield of options,
CL_SCAN_MAIL, CL_SCAN_ARCHIVE or CL_SCAN_RAW "Exportable constants".
This function returns the status object discussed earlier.
Note that if you are running in taint mode (-T) and a tainted path is
passed to "scan()", it will "croak()".
scanbuff($buff)
This function was taken out of ClamAV in 0.90 and was thus taken out
of Mail::ClamAV.
Data Directory stats
If the path passed into "new()" is a directory Mail::ClamAV will set
things up to check for updated database files. Calling the
"statchkdir()" will check the database directory to the stats we have
in memory. If anything has changed true is returned, otherwise false.
NOTE: trying to use "statchkdir()" when you passed in a database file
instead of directory will produce a fatal error.
"statchkdir()" is useful for long running daemons that need to check to
see if it is time to reload the database. Reloading is simply getting a
new Mail::ClamAV object and initializing it.
SEE ALSO
The ClamAV API documentation
<http://www.clamav.net/doc/html-0.65/node44.html>
AUTHOR
David P.C. Wollmann <converter42@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2003 by Gossamer Threads Inc.
<http://www.gossamer-threads.com>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.1 or, at
your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.18.2 2009-04-29 ClamAV(3)
