Security/Download Protection: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:58, 12 September 2016

This feature protects users against malware downloads. It is based on Safe Browsing.

browser.safebrowsing.downloads.enabled: enables application reputation checks for downloaded files
browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.enabled: enables remote lookups (requires the previous pref)
browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.timeout_ms: timeout for the remote lookups
browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled: enables malware checks (required by application reputation)
browser.safebrowsing.provider.google.lists: list of tables coming from the Google Safe Browsing service
urlclassifier.downloadAllowTable: list of trusted certificates which suppress remote lookups (Windows-only)
urlclassifier.downloadBlockTable: list of URLs serving malware binaries

Firefox 45 and earlier:

Firefox 46 and later:

Product/Component: Toolkit/Safe Browsing

Most of the code lives in toolkit/components/downloads/ApplicationReputation.cpp.

The list of file extensions that Chrome submits for remote verification lives inside a "File Type Policies" Chrome extension (see `chrome://components`) and uses this protobuf file as the source: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/browser/resources/safe_browsing/download_file_types.asciipb

To turn on debugging output, export the following environment variable:

MOZ_LOG_FILE=/tmp/apprep.log
MOZ_LOG="ApplicationReputation:5"

APPLICATION_REPUTATION_COUNT: number of download lookups through the application reputation code
APPLICATION_REPUTATION_LOCAL: results of the local checks (whitelist and blacklist)
APPLICATION_REPUTATION_SERVER: whether the response from the remote server was valid, invalid (failed to parse as a protobuf) or failed in some other way
APPLICATION_REPUTATION_SERVER_VERDICT: results (verdict) we got back from the remote server lookup
APPLICATION_REPUTATION_SHOULD_BLOCK: whether or not a download has been blocked due to an application reputation lookup (local or remote)
APPLICATION_REPUTATION_REMOTE_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT: whether or not a client timed out while contacting the remote lookup server

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 Most of the code lives in <tt>toolkit/components/downloads/ApplicationReputation.cpp</tt>.
+The list of file extensions that Chrome submits for remote verification lives inside a "File Type Policies" Chrome extension (see `chrome://components`) and uses this protobuf file as the source: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/browser/resources/safe_browsing/download_file_types.asciipb
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