Trusted and Revoked Certificates

Clamav 0.98 checks signed PE files for certificates and verifies each certificate in the chain against a database of trusted and revoked certificates. The signature format is

Name;Trusted;Subject;Serial;Pubkey;Exponent;CodeSign;TimeSign;CertSign;
NotBefore;Comment[;minFL[;maxFL]]

where the corresponding fields are:

  • Name: name of the entry

  • Trusted: bit field, specifying whether the cert is trusted. 1 for trusted. 0 for revoked

  • Subject: sha1 of the Subject field in hex

  • Serial: the serial number as clamscan --debug --verbose reports

  • Pubkey: the public key in hex

  • Exponent: the exponent in hex. Currently ignored and hardcoded to 010001 (in hex)

  • CodeSign: bit field, specifying whether this cert can sign code. 1 for true, 0 for false

  • TimeSign: bit field. 1 for true, 0 for false

  • CertSign: bit field, specifying whether this cert can sign other certs. 1 for true, 0 for false

  • NotBefore: integer, cert should not be added before this variable. Defaults to 0 if left empty

  • Comment: comments for this entry

The signatures for certs are stored inside .crb files.