Bug ID 592274: RAT-Detection alerts sent with incorrect duration details

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP FPS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.0, 12.1.1

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.2

Opened: May 10, 2016

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

If a remote access trojan (RAT) detection alert is encountered immediately upon initialization, the timestamp of the alert will be incorrect.

Impact

Rat-detection alerts sent with incorrect duration details, and false-positives for RAT keyboard alerts.

Conditions

-- Enable RAT detection. -- RAT detection alert is countered within 5 seconds of initialization.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

When generating RAT Detected alert within 5 seconds from page load, actualCounter in alert details is lower than 5 seconds for example: "timeToResetCounter":5000,"actualCounter":4296

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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