% this function detects potential malware in the current folder and subfolders % % Author: A. Delorme, Cotober 2013 function detectmalware(currentFolder); if nargin < 1 currentFolder = pwd; end; folderContent = dir(currentFolder); folderContent = { folderContent.name }; malwareStrings = { 'eval(' 'evalin(' 'evalc(' 'delete(' 'movefile(' 'rmdir' 'mkdir' 'copyfile' 'system(' '!' }; for iFile = 1:length(folderContent) currentFile = folderContent{iFile}; if length(currentFile) > 2 && strcmpi(currentFile(end-1:end), '.m') fid = fopen(fullfile(currentFolder, currentFile), 'r'); countLine = 0; prevstr = ''; while ~feof(fid) str = fgetl(fid); countLine = countLine+1; if length(str) > 1 && str(1) ~= '%' res = cellfun(@(x)~isempty(findstr(x, str)), malwareStrings(1:end-1)); if str(1) == '!', res(end+1) = 1; end; if any(res) pos = find(res); pos = pos(1); disp('************************************') fprintf('Potential malware command detected containing "%s" in\n %s line %d\n', malwareStrings{pos}, fullfile(currentFolder, currentFile), countLine); fprintf('%d: %s\n%d: %s\n%d: %s\n', countLine-1, prevstr, countLine, str, countLine+1, fgetl(fid)); countLine = countLine+1; end; end; prevstr = str; end; fclose(fid); elseif exist(currentFile) == 7 && ~strcmpi(currentFile, '..') && ~strcmpi(currentFile, '.') detectmalware(fullfile(currentFolder, currentFile)); end; end;