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False positive threat

L4 Transporter

Hello,

 

PA-3020 is falsely identifying some adobe-creative-cloud-base traffic as being a threat.  I can't add an exception for this as the log view does not contain a threat ID as it normally would for a threat.  All of my dynamic updates are up to date.

The URL filtering profile is set to ‘alert’ for computer-and-internet-info (I have most of the categories set to ‘alert’). 

The rule is set to ‘application default’ for the ports. 

How to resolve this issue?

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Thank you all for the response.

 

We had file blocking in place...disabled the file blocking and this has resolved the issue.

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L6 Presenter

If you can get a PCAP of the traffic.  Open a ticket with support.  They'll review the PCAP and get the signature updated to not alert on this false positive.

I have not ever seen an application signature being false postive for a threat.

Now, it could be information inside the flow, using the app signature, but definitely not the app signature itself.

 

As for the URL category set to alert, then I would want to see a screen capture of the security profile group (if any) for your rule.

I am thinking you may have  multiple URL filtering profiles and one of them is set to block.

 

But we would need see screen captures to show us this info.

 

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Thank you all for the response.

 

We had file blocking in place...disabled the file blocking and this has resolved the issue.

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