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SQ30114

Detected presence of suspicious files due to the digital signing process abuse.

priorityCI/CD statusseverityeffortRL levelRL assessment
failhighhigh2malware: fail
Reason: signing process abuses detected

About the issue​

Digital signatures are applied to applications, packages and documents as a cryptographically secured authenticity record. Signatures verify the origin and the integrity of the object they apply to. Code signing process must adhere to a strict set of rules to assure software users that the signatures are trustworthy. No signature should be made with a certificate that has expired, was revoked, or whose contents cannot be validated. Failing to comply with the established code signing best practices may result in application errors and availability outages. Software packages that abuse the digital code signing process also tend to increase the number of support calls and open tickets from users.

How to resolve the issue​

  • Obtain a new code signing certificate and re-sign the software component.

Incidence statistics​

ReversingLabs periodically collects and analyzes the contents of popular software package repositories for threat research purposes.

For every repository, the chart shows the percentage of projects that triggered the software assurance policy. In other words, it shows how many projects were found to have the specific issue described on this page.

The percentages are calculated from the total amount of packages analyzed:

  • RubyGems: 174K
  • Nuget: 189K
  • PyPi: 403K
  • NPM: 2.1M