Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos.A!cl detected in Win32 Packer Binary

[Manoj Vasudevan]

I recently downloaded  32 bit binary using the link https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.2.0/packer_1.2.0_windows_386.zip?_ga=2.123459467.147161268.1519346784-1125995714.1519346784 on a windows 10 machine  and the virus threat detection on my machine flagged the exe saying that the File has a Trojan called Fuerboos.A!cl

Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos.A!cl

I was able to workaround this with a MacOS version. Is this a know issue with Win32 binary? 

Thanks,

[Matthew Hooker]

Thanks for the report, Manoj. I'm almost certain this is a false positive. There is a similar issue on github for terraform, with lots of information there that I think also applies to packer: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/16539. I've also verified that the checksum of the file you linked matches the contents of the signed shasum file.

I will try to reproduce and submit it for malware analysis to Windows Defender Security Intelligence. I will report back if it finds anything.

Thanks,

--Matt Hooker

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