Why am I seeing two Anti-Virus signatures triggered for one file when WF real-time is enabled
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Created On 03/06/23 23:37 PM - Last Modified 11/06/25 20:48 PM
Question
Why am I seeing two anti-virus signatures triggered for one file when WF real-time is enabled?
Environment
PAN-OS 10.0 and above
Answer
This is due to combinations of a few scenarios, including (a) enabling WF real-time setting on Firewall, (b) and a signature in replace status.
- Firewall Wildfire real-time is enabled.
- Example: Signature with 305248623, status is 'replace' and has two hashes associated with it.
- a9beed803dc58e06d278e593ec5c5619bdce4b45ec6d8e1697957e9923612711
- 435052fec38434281ade35a0171d6f352fe44e905552b1ca40839df74e5ddbcb
- When a sample is pushed again through Firewall, 6dab5a397b97b2604d9d7541f02e7548de34e1c53b359263583c0fe0407b5827, a new signature is generated with TID: 574021117 on 03/02/2023 13:08 PST. Patterns: f2b43291000000000001682900016962000169dbb9e3f455
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debug dataplane show ctd wf-cache virus-pattern-type ALL Virus Pattern (hex encoded): f2b43291000000000001682900016962000169dbb9e3f455 UTID: 574021117, NPatterns: 1, PatternPos: 0, Disabled: No
Since the real-time WF setting, a cloud query will receive the signature information, and Firewall MP and DP cache will be populated. -
Virus Pattern (hex encoded): 7064660000000000000000000001706b0000000000000000 UTID: 305248623, NPatterns: 1, PatternPos: 0, Disabled: No
Both signatures have different patterns, however it will trigger on the same file. - Once the new signature is generated, the old hash is removed from the previous TID ( even for PDFs)
Both Signatures:
admin@PA-VM> debug dataplane show ctd wf-cache virus-pattern-type ALL Virus Pattern (hex encoded): 050ace0063fe058b00067cab000000000011400060064200 UTID: 573910297, NPatterns: 1, PatternPos: 0, Disabled: Yes Virus Pattern (hex encoded): f2b43291000000000001682900016962000169dbb9e3f455 UTID: 574021117, NPatterns: 1, PatternPos: 0, Disabled: No Virus Pattern (hex encoded): 7064660000000000000000000001706b0000000000000000 UTID: 305248623, NPatterns: 1, PatternPos: 0, Disabled: No Virus Pattern (hex encoded): 6830316bcddcdccdaaeeccffcddcdccdaaeeccffdeadbeef UTID: 157123251, NPatterns: 1, PatternPos: 0, Disabled: Yes
Additional Information
When the new signature is generated, the sample from the old one is removed.