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The goal of this project is to efficiently virus scan files that are uploaded to a S3 bucket and notify the results of the scan.

This can be achieved in a reasonably cost effictive manner using Lambda, node and clamscan.

S3 is configured to call a node handler when a S3 PUT event is received. The node handler calls out to clamscan and then publishes to SNS with the results. SNS can be configured to POST to a webhook or PUT in a SQS queue for later processing.

Unfortunately due to size limitations, its not possible to keep the virus definitions in the package, but rather they need to be uploaded to S3 where the Lambda process can then download. If you're processing files quite closely together, the Lambda container may still be around and so the virus definitions won't need to be re-downloaded.

Installation

Build the clamscan binaries

clamscan is currently the only supported virus scanning engine and need to be configured to run under Lambda. There are a couple of ways to do this:

Build the binaries on the amazonlinux Docker image

1. docker pull amazonlinux
2. docker run -it amazonlinux
3. Follow the build/update instructions below.

Build the binaries on an actual EC2 instance

1. Spin up an EC2 instance and assume the ec2-user.
2. sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
3. sudo yum install openssl openssl-devel wget
4. wget https://www.clamav.net/downloads/production/clamav-0.99.2.tar.gz
5. tar -xvf clamav-0.99.2.tar.gz
6. cd clamav-0.99.2
7. ./configure --enable-static=yes --enable-shared=no --disable-unrar --prefix=/var/task
8. make
9. sudo make install

Update the virus definition files

1. sudo chown -R ec2-user /var/task
2. touch /var/task/etc/freshclam.conf
   • or cp /var/task/etc/freshclam.conf.sample /var/task/etc/freshclam.conf and follow the instruction to #Comment or remove the line below
3. mkdir /var/task/share/clamav
4. /var/task/bin/freshclam
5. /var/task/bin/clamscan /var/task/test/resources/EICAR-AV-Test
   • Should return /var/task/test/resources/EICAR-AV-Test: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND

Copy the files to where they need to be

1. You'll need to upload the virus definition files from /var/task/share/clamav to a location in S3, or some HTTP/HTTPS accessible location.
   • Make sure that the lambda_exec IAM role has read permissions on these files.
   • Add the URIs to the files to your configuration under db-files
2. You'll need to copy the clamscan binary in /var/task/bin/clamscan to the bin directory in this project
3. You'll need to copy the lib64 libraries in /var/task/lib64 to the lib64 directory in this project

Set up your AWS Infrastructure

1. S3 Bucket with files to scan
2. SNS Topic to notify on infected file discovery
3. IAM Resources
   1. An IAM user with an access key/secret so you can node-lambda run and node-lambda deploy
      • Quick Start:
        • AWSLambdaFullAccess
   2. A lambda_exec role (Lambda Service type role)
      • Quick Start:
        • AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess
        • AmazonSNSFullAccess
      • Better Security:
        • S3 Bucket: ListBuckets & GetObject
        • SNS Topic: Publish access
4. CloudWatch is very useful for debugging - you will need to add permissions for that as well if desired.

Configure and deploy the Lambda function

# Install dependencies
brew install node
npm install -g node-lambda


# Setup the package
npm install # or `yarn install`


# Provide your `slamscan` configuration by changing the `DEFINE-ME` values in default.yaml to the relevant ones for you
cp config/test.yaml config/local.yaml
emacs config/local.yaml # or `vim` or `nano` or whatever.


# Initialize and provide some `node-lambda` configuration
node-lambda setup

emacs .env # or `vim` or `nano` or whatever.
# You'll want to set the following, but experimentation is encouraged
# AWS_MEMORY_SIZE=1024 # `clamscan` is pretty RAM hungry these days, per https://github.com/widdix/aws-s3-virusscan/issues/12
# AWS_TIMEOUT=120 # `clamscan` takes a bit of time to spin up, plus downloading your virus definitions & files to scan might take a while
# AWS_RUN_TIMEOUT=120
# AWS_PROFILE=<your local `aws-cli` configured credentials in a profile>

cp test/resources/event.json ./event.json 
# Might as well use the skeleton that's already there and just change the `DEFINE-ME`s
emacs event.json # or `vim` or `nano` or whatever.


# Run your lambda locally
node-lambda run


# Deploy your lambda
node-lambda deploy

Configure your Lambda function triggers

Login to the AWS Console and add the appropriate (S3 PUT) triggers here.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Please ensure existing standards and tests pass by running npm test.