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    Shell Script Analysis Support for Wildfire Inline ML

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    Shell Script Analysis Support for Wildfire Inline ML

    To access the new shell script analysis classification engine for WildFire Inline ML, be sure to download and install the latest PAN-OS content release. PAN-OS Applications and Threats content release 8543 and later allows firewalls operating PAN-OS 10.x and later to detect and prevent malicious shell scripts from entering your network in real-time. For more information about the update, refer to the Applications and Threat Content Release Notes.
    To download the release notes, log in to the Palo Alto Networks Support Portal, click Dynamic Updates and select the release notes listed under Apps + Threats.
    WildFire Inline ML now supports a new shell script (.sh) analysis engine. This enables you to configure your firewall to detect and prevent malicious shell scripts from entering your network in real-time by locally applying machine learning (ML) analytics. WildFire Inline ML dynamically detects malicious scripts by evaluating various file details to formulate a high probability classification of a file. This protection extends to currently unknown as well as future variants of threats that match characteristics that Palo Alto Networks identified as malicious. If you do not have WildFire Inline ML enabled on your firewall, refer to WildFire Inline ML for more information.
    1. Update your existing Antivirus Security profile to enable the shell script analysis and classification engine.
      1. Select an existing Antivirus Profile or Add a new one (Objects > Security Profiles > Antivirus).
      2. Configure your Antivirus profile.
      3. Select WildFire Inline ML and apply an Action Setting for the new WildFire inline ML model. This enforces WildFire inline ML Actions settings for each protocol on a per-model basis. In addition to the currently available classification engines, Shell should now be available. If this model is unavailable, verify that you have content release 8543 or later installed on the firewall.
        • enable (inherit per-protocol actions)—WildFire inspects traffic according to your selections in the WildFire Inline ML Action column in the decoders section of the Action tab.
        • alert-only (override more strict actions to alert)—WildFire inspects traffic according to your selections in the WildFire Inline ML Action column in the decoders section of the Action tab and overrides any action with a severity level higher than alert (drop, reset-client, reset-server, reset-both) alert, which allows traffic to pass while still generating and saving an alert in the threat logs.
        • disable (for all protocols)—WildFire allows traffic to pass without any policy action.
      4. Click OK to exit the Antivirus Profile configuration dialog and Commit your new settings.
    2. (Optional) Add file exceptions to your Antivirus Security profile if you encounter false-positives. This is typically done for users who are not forwarding files to WildFire for analysis. You can add the file exception details directly to the exception list or by specifying a file from the threat logs.
      If your firewall WildFire Analysis security profile is configured to forward shell scripts, false-positives are automatically corrected as they are received. If you continue to see ml-virus alerts for scripts that have been classified as benign by WildFire Analysis, please contact Palo Alto Networks Support.
      • Add file exceptions directly to the exceptions list.
        1. Select Objects > Security Profiles > Antivirus.
        2. Select an Antivirus profile for which you want to exclude specific files and then select WildFire Inline ML.
        3. Add the hash, filename, and description of the file that you want to exclude from enforcement.
        4. Click OK to save the Antivirus profile and then Commit your changes.
      • Add file exceptions from threat logs entries.
        1. Select Monitor > Logs > Threat and filter the logs for the ml-virus threat type. Select a threat log for a file for which you wish to create a file exception.
        2. Go to the Detailed Log View and scroll to Details and then Create Exception.
        3. Add a Description and click OK to add the file exception.
        4. You can find the new file exception in the File Exceptions list (ObjectsSecurity ProfilesAntivirusWildFire Inline ML.
    3. (Optional) See Configure WildFire Inline ML for information about testing your firewall’s connection to the inline ML cloud service and viewing related logs.

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