Malware Scanning for File Uploads

Introduction

Our customers often upload files without prior content scanning, leaving them vulnerable to significant risks, including data breaches and website defacement. To address these concerns, we introduced Malware Scanning for file uploads.  

This new capability will automatically detect and block malicious files containing malware, significantly improving security for our users. 

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The File Uploads section allows customers to choose the type of file to be uploaded and set the file size limit. 

A toggle switch in the Allow File Uploads field allows customers to enable or disable file uploads on the site. 

The maximum file size allowed for scanning is 15MB. If a file exceeds this limit, only the first 15MB will be scanned, and the results will be based on that portion of the file. 

This feature is available exclusively for customers on the Enterprise Plan. 

How to Enable Malware Scanning?

Navigate to WAAP > Configure WAF > File Uploads. 

In the Enable Malware Scanning field, click the toggle switch to enable scanning.

Possible Responses 

Response 1: Promocode doesn’t support Malware Scanning

If you are on advance and advance plan, this pop-up appears. 

If you are an enterprise customer and unable to initiate malware scanning for your applications with current promocode, contact Support. 

Response 2: Confirmation po-up for valid promocode

Here a pop-up opens for confirmation of malware scan for selected application.  

This pop-up message gives details of the promocode, number of applications enabled for malware scanning, and with the promocode how many attempts are left to initiate the scan for different applications.  

Response 3: Migrate your application to new architecture

This feature is only available for new WAF architecture. 

How to Disable Malware Scanning? 

 Click on the toggle switch in Enable Malware Scanning field to disable malware scanning for file uploads. 

Click Save.