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L3 Networker

Hi,

Can the PaloAlto firewall search for files using hash sum (chechsum)?

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Hi,

No, you can't. Neither the Sha256 checksum  used for wildfire nor other checksum are available as usable criteriun.

Hope help

V.

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L5 Sessionator

Hi Ignas,

The PANFW does look for the hash of the files when using wildfire for file blocking functionality.

The below docs explain the same:

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-3300

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-5266

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/message/13942#13942

Hi kprakash,

thanks for your answer. I want to know, if i have exact file packet checksum, can i find all packets in my network which match that checksum? As i understand, PaloAlto don't have such possibility.

Hi,

No, you can't. Neither the Sha256 checksum  used for wildfire nor other checksum are available as usable criteriun.

Hope help

V.

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