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Integrate with SAP NetWeaver

The Scanner feature enables you to protect your SAP deployments using Workload Security, helping to secure critical information from attack, including a wide variety of threats such as malware, cross-site scripting and SQL injection. Workload Security scans content uploaded to the SAP NetWeaver technology platform to determine its true type and reports this to SAP systems via the NetWeaver-VSI interface. Content scanning protects against possible malicious script content that might be embedded or disguised inside documents. SAP administrators can then set policy according to which document types should be allowed.

Scanner is not supported on computers with a relay-enabled agent.

The Scanner functions as follows:

  1. SAP customer environments are secured through the SAP Virus Scan Interface (VSI), the security component of the SAP NetWeaver platform. The VSI is used to secure all forms of customer content including documents, embedded images, and active content including JavaScript and scripts in PDF and Office documents. The Scanner feature works seamlessly with SAP NetWeaver technology and the SAP HANA® platform.
  2. The Workload Security Scanner feature scans the content uploaded to the SAP NetWeaver technology platform to determine its true type and reports this to SAP systems via the NetWeaver VSI interface. Content scanning protects against possible malicious script content that might be embedded or disguised inside documents.
  3. SAP administrators can then set policy according to which actual document types should be allowed.

Workflow diagram

Workload Security and SAP components

Workload Security connects with the agent located on the SAP NetWeaver server. The agent connects with libsapvsa or dsvsa.dll, which are the virus adapters provided by Trend Micro for scanning purposes.

The components involved in this solution are:

  • Workload Security: The centralized web-based management console that administrators use to configure security policy and deploy protection to the agent.
  • Agent: A security agent deployed directly on a computer. The nature of that protection depends on the rules and security settings that each agent receives from Workload Security.
  • SAP NetWeaver: SAP integrated technology computing platform. The SAP NetWeaver Virus Scan Interface (NW-VSI) provides virus scanning capabilities for third-party products that perform the actual scan. The NW-VSI interface must be activated.
  • SAP NetWeaver ABAP WinGUI: A Windows management console used for SAP NetWeaver. In this document, it is used for the configuration of the agent and the SAP NetWeaver Virus Scan Interface.

SAP architecture

Enable integration between Workload Security Scanner and SAP NetWeaver

  1. Purchase Scanner for your Workload Security account. When the order is complete, you will be able to see Scanner in your Workload Security console. To check whether or not Scanner is enabled, open the Computer or Policy editor and go to Settings. You should see a Scanner tab.
  2. Check the Supported features by platform page to see which operating systems support Scanner.
  3. Install the agent on an SAP application server that's running one of the supported operating systems. See Install the agent‌.
  4. Add the SAP server to Workload Security and activate the agent on the SAP server. See Add the SAP server to Workload Security and activate the agent.
  5. Enable the SAP integration feature in a computer or policy. See Assign a security profile‌.
  6. Configure the SAP Virus Scan Interface (VSI) by calling the following transactions. See Configure SAP to use the agent:
    • VSCANGROUP
    • VSCAN
    • VSCANPROFILE
    • VSCANTEST

Depending on your operating system and environment, the output may differ slightly.

Install the agent

The agent is installed with core agent functionality only. After the agent is installed on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can enable protection modules on the agent. At that point, the plug-ins required for the protection modules will be downloaded and installed.

  1. Go to the Deep Security software download page and download the agent package for your OS.
  2. Install the agent on the target system. You can use rpm or zypper, depending on the OS. In this example, rpm is used by typing:
    rpm -ihv Agent-Core-SuSE_<version>.x86_64.rpm
  3. You should see output similar to what's shown in this example, which indicates that the agent installation is complete:

    SAP agent install

You can also deploy the agent using a deployment script generated from Workload Security.

The agent is now installed on the SAP server but no protection modules are active. To enable protection, you need to add the SAP server to Workload Security.

Add SAP server to Workload Security and activate the agent

To add the SAP server, open the Workload Security console and on the Computers tab, click New. There are several ways to add the server, including synchronization with Microsoft Active Directory, VMware vCenter, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure. You can also add the computer using an FQDN or IP address. For detailed instructions, see About adding computers.

The status of your instance is either Unmanaged (Activation Required) or Unmanaged (Unknown). Next, you need to activate the agent before Workload Security can assign rules and policies to protect the computer. The activation process includes the exchange of unique fingerprints between the agent and Workload Security. There are two ways to activate the agent: agent-initiated or manager-initiated.

Manager-initiated activation: This method requires that Workload Security (the manager) can connect to the FQDN or the IP of the agent via the agent's listening port number for heartbeats. This can sometimes be difficult due to NAT port forwarding, firewall, or AWS security groups. To perform manager-initiated activation, go to the Computers tab in the Workload Security console, right-click the instance where the agent is installed and click Actions > Activate. If you use manager-initiated activation, we strongly recommend you also Protect the agent from unauthorized managers.

Agent-initiated activation: The agent-initiated method requires that the agent can connect to Workload Security.

You also need to enable agent-initiated activation from the Workload Security console, by clicking Administration > System Settings > Agents and selecting Allow Agent-Initiated Activation.

Next, use a locally-run command-line tool on the agent to initiate the activation process. The minimum activation instruction contains the activation command and the Workload Security URL (including the port number):

dsa_control -a dsm://[managerurl]:[port]/

where:

  • -a is the command to activate the agent, and
  • dsm://managerurl:443/ is the parameter that points the agent to Workload Security. managerurl is the URL of Workload Security, and 443 is the default agent-to-manager communication port.

The manager URL is the only required parameter for the activation command. Additional parameters are also available. For a list of available parameters, see Command-line basics.

To confirm the activation:

  1. In the Workload Security console, go to the Computers tab.
  2. Click the computer name and then click Details and check that the computer's status is Managed.

Assign a security profile‌

At this point, the status of the agent is Managed (Online) but there is no protection module installed. This means that the agent and Workload Security are communicating but the agent is not using any configuration.

There are several ways to apply protection. In this example, the configuration is done directly on the SAP instance by activating anti-malware and SAP and assigning the default Scan Configurations.

  1. In the Computer or Policy editor, go to Anti-Malware > General.
  2. In the Anti-Malware section, set Configuration to On (or Inherited On) and then click Save.

    Anti malware configuration

  3. In the Real-Time Scan, Manual Scan, or Scheduled Scan sections, set the Malware Scan Configuration and Schedule, or allow those settings to be inherited from the parent policy.

  4. Click Save. The status of the anti-malware module changes to Off, installation pending. This means that the agent is retrieving the required module from Workload Security. For this to work, the client needs to access the Relay on the relay's listening port number. A few moments later, the agent should start downloading security updates such as anti-malware patterns and scan engines.
  5. In the Computer editor, go to Settings > Scanner.
  6. In the SAP section, set Configuration to On (or Inherited On) and then click Save.

After status of the agent changes to Managed (Online) again and the anti-malware and Scanner (SAP) modules are On, you can proceed with the SAP configuration.

Scanner on

Configure SAP to use the agent

The agent is now up and running and is able to scan the file system of its operating system. Next, make the agent aware of the SAP application server. To use this, create a virus scan adapter inside the application server. The virus scan adapter must be part of a group. After the virus scan adapter and virus scan group are created, use virus scan profiles to configure what to scan and how to behave.

The following are the required steps:

  1. Configure the Trend Micro scanner group
  2. Configure the Trend Micro virus scan provider
  3. Configure the Trend Micro virus scan profile
  4. Test the virus scan interface

The virus scan group and the virus scan adapter are both global configurations (client 00). The virus scan profile must be configured in each tenant (client 01, 02, and so on).

Configure the Trend Micro scanner group

  1. In the SAP WinGUI, run the VSCANGROUP transaction. In Edit mode, click New Entries.

    VSCAN group

  2. Create a new scanner group, specifying a group name in the Scanner Group area and a description of the scanner group in the Group Text area.

    Edit SAP VSCANGROUP

  3. Click the Save icon or leave the edit mode.

    A Prompt for Workbench request dialog appears. In the following example, a new workbench request is created to keep track of all the VSI-related changes:

    Save SAP VSCANGROUP

The next step is the actual configuration of the VSI integration. It is called a Virus Scan Adapter.

Configure the Trend Micro virus scan provider

  1. In the SAP WinGUI, run the VSCAN transaction. In Edit mode, click New Entries.

    SAP VSCAN transaction

  2. Enter a configuration for a VSI-certified solution.

    In the following example, the following configuration parameters are set:

    SAP VSCAN edit

    Setting Value Description
    Provider Type ADAPTER (Virus Scan Adapter) Automatically set (default)
    Provider Name VSA_<host name> Automatically set, serves as alias
    Scanner Group Select the group that you configured earlier All previously created scanner groups, which you can display using the input help
    Status Active (Application Server) Automatically set (default)
    Server nplhost_NPL_42 Automatically set, hostname
    Reinit. Interv. 8 Hours Specifies the number of hours after which the Virus Scan Adapter will be reinitialized and load new virus definitions.
    Adapter Path (Linux) /lib64/libsapvsa.so Default path
    Adapter Path (Windows) C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Deep Security Agent\lib\dsvsa.dll Default path

  3. Click the Save icon or leave the edit mode.

    A prompt to pack this into a workbench request appears.

  4. Confirm the request, then click Start.

    The Status light turns green, which means the adapter is loaded and active.

    Save vscan

At this point, the VSI configuration is nearly finished. The application server is now ready to process file transactions using a virus scan provided by Trend Micro.

Configure the Trend Micro virus scan profile

  1. In the SAP WinGUI, run the VSCANPROFILE transaction, then select the SAP operation that requires virus scan.

    For example, select Active for /SCET/GUI_UPLOAD or /SCET/GUI_DOWNLOAD and then click the Save icon.

    SAP VSCAN profile

  2. In Edit mode, click New Entries.

    The virus scan profiles define how specific transactions (file uploads, file downloads, and so on) are handled corresponding to the virus scan interface. To use the previously configured virus scan adapter in the application server, you need to create a new virus scan profile.

  3. In Scan Profile, enter Z_TMProfile and select Active, Default Profile, and Evaluate Profile Configuration Param.

    Edit VSCAN profile

  4. While still in edit mode, double-click the Steps folder to configure the steps:

    VSCAN profile steps

  5. Click New Entries.

    The steps define what to do when the profile is called by a transaction.

  6. Set the Position to 0, Type to Group and the Scanner Group to the name of the group that you configured earlier.

  7. Click the Save icon or leave the edit mode.

    A notification eventually appears about an existing virus scan profile, /SCET/DP_VS_ENABLED.

  8. Ignore the notification about an existing profile because the profile is not active and is not used.

    After confirming this notification, you are asked to pack this configuration in a customization request. Creating a new request helps keep track of the changes that have been made:

    Save SAP VSCAN

  9. To create configuration parameters for a step, double-click the Profile Configuration Parameters folder, then click New Entries and set the parameters:

    Parameter Type Description
    CUST_ACTIVE_CONTENT BOOL Check whether a file contains script (JavaScript, PHP, or ASP script) and block
    CUST_CHECK_MIME_TYPE BOOL Check whether the file extension name matches its MIME type. If they do not match, the file will be blocked. All MIME types and extension names can be exactly matched. For example:
    • Word files must be .doc or .dot
    • JPEG files must be .jpg
    • Text and binary files could be any extension (won’t block)

    See Supported MIME types.

  10. Double-click the Step Configuration Parameters folder. Click New Entries and set the parameters:

    Parameter Type Description Default (Linux) Default (Windows)
    SCANBESTEFFORT BOOL The scan should be performed on the "best effort" basis; that is, all (security critical) flags that allow a VSA to scan an object should be activated, such as SCANALLFILES and SCANEXTRACT, but also internal flags. Details about exactly which flags these are can be stored in the certification. (not set) (not set)
    SCANALLFILES BOOL Scans for all files regardless of their file extension. disabled disabled
    SCANEXTENSIONS CHAR List of the file extensions for which the VSA should scan. Only files with the configured extensions will be checked. Other extensions are blocked. Wildcards can also be used here to search for patterns. * stands for this location and following and ? stands for only this character. For example, exe;com;do?;ht* => `*` means to scan all files. null ""
    SCANLIMIT INT This setting applies to compressed files. It specifies the maximum number of files that will be unpacked and scanned. INT_MAX 65535
    SCANEXTRACT BOOL Archives or compressed objects are to be unpacked enabled enabled
    SCANEXTRACT_SIZE SIZE_T Maximum unpack size 0x7FFFFFFF 62914560 (60 MB)
    SCANEXTRACT_DEPTH INT Maximum depth to which an object is to be unpacked. 20 20
    SCANMIMETYPES CHAR List of the MIME types to be scanned for. Only files with configured MIME types will be checked. Other MIME types are blocked. This parameter works only if CUST_CHECK_MIME_TYPE is enabled. (not set) (not set)
    BLOCKMIMETYPES CHAR List of MIME types that will be blocked. This parameter works only if CUST_CHECK_MIME_TYPE is enabled. (not set) (not set)
    BLOCKEXTENSIONS CHAR List of file extensions that will be blocked. (not set) (not set)

This configuration is per-client, so it must be done in each tenant of the SAP application server.

Test the virus scan interface

  1. In the SAP WinGUI, run the VSCANTEST transaction.

    SAP test VSCAN

    Every VSI-aware SAP application server also has a built-in test to check whether the configuration steps were done correctly. For this, an EICAR test virus (www.eicar.org) is packed in a transaction that can call a specific scanner.

  2. Not filling in anything calls the default profile, which was configured in the last step, so do not fill in anything.

  3. Click Execute.

    A notification appears that explains what an EICAR test virus is.

  4. Confirm the notification.

    The transaction is intercepted:

    Execute VSCAN test

Infections shows information about the detected malware.

Content Information shows the correct MIME-type of the file.

The file name is always a randomly generated 7-letter alphabetic string followed by the virus scan profile name.

After this, there is an output about each step of the transaction:

  1. The transaction called the default virus scan profile, which is the virus scan profile Z_TMPROFILE.
  2. The virus scan profile Z_TMPROFILE is configured to call an adapter from the virus scan group Z_TMGROUP.
  3. The virus scan group Z_TMGROUP has multiple adapters configured and calls one of them (in this case, VSA_NPLHOST).
  4. The virus scan adapter returns value 2-, which means a virus was found.
  5. Information about the detected malware is displayed by showing Eicar_test_1 and the file object /tmp/ zUeEbZZ_TMPROFILE.
  6. The called default virus scan profile Z_TMPROFILE fails because step 00 (the virus scan group) was not successful and therefore the file transaction is stopped from further processing.

For a cross-check, there is also information about this malware event in the Workload Security console. To see the event, open the Computer editor and click Anti-Malware > Events.

Supported MIME types

The MIME types supported by the Scanner vary depending on which version of the agent you are using.

  • Agent version 9.6 uses VSAPI 9.85
  • Agent version 10.0 uses ATSE 9.861
  • Agent version 10.1 uses ATSE 9.862
  • Agent version 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1, and 11.2 uses ATSE 10.000
  • Agent version 11.3 and later uses ATSE 11.0.000
MIME Type Description Extension Supported in 9.6 Agent
Supported in 10.0 Agent
Supported in 10.1 Agent or higher
application/octet-stream * Yes Yes Yes
application/com COM File com Yes Yes Yes
application/ecmascript EMCScript File es Yes Yes Yes
application/hta HTA File hta Yes Yes Yes
application/java-archive Java Archive (JAR) file jar Yes Yes Yes
application/javascript Javascript File js, jsxinc, jsx Yes Yes Yes
application/msword Word for Windows doc, dot Yes Yes Yes
application/vnd.ms-access MS Access mdb No No No
application/vnd.ms-project MS Project mpp No No No
application/msword MS Word doc, dot Yes Yes Yes
application/octet-stream COM File com Yes Yes Yes
application/octet-stream EXE File exe Yes Yes Yes
application/pdf Adobe Portable Document Format file pdf Yes Yes Yes
application/postscript Postscript ai Yes Yes Yes
application/postscript Postscript ps Yes Yes Yes
application/postscript Postscript ps Yes Yes Yes
application/rar RAR File rar Yes Yes Yes
application/rtf Microsoft RTF rtf Yes Yes Yes
application/sar Sar File sar Yes Yes Yes
application/vnd.ms-excel Excel for Windows xls, xlt, xla Yes Yes Yes
application/vnd.ms-outlook Outlook for Windows msg No Yes Yes
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint Windows PowerPoint ppt, pot, pps, ppa Yes Yes Yes
application/vnd.ms-publisher MS Publisher pub No No Yes
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument Open Document odf Yes Yes Yes
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation MS Office File pptx, potx, ppsx, ppam, pptm, potm, ppsm Yes Yes Yes
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet MS Office File xlsx, xltx, xlsm, xltm, xlam, xlsb Yes Yes Yes
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document MS Office File docx, dotx, docm, dotm Yes Yes Yes
application/vnd.rn-realmedia Real Media rm Yes Yes Yes
application/wordperfect WOrdPerfect wp, wp5, wp6, wpd, w60, w61 Yes Yes Yes
application/x-alf alf Yes Yes Yes
application/x-arc-compressed ARC File arc Yes Yes Yes
application/x-bzip2 bZIP File * Yes Yes Yes
application/x-cpio CPIO File * Yes Yes Yes
application/x-director Macromedia Director Shockwave Movie dcr Yes Yes Yes
application/x-gzip Gzip * Yes Yes Yes
application/xhtml+xml XHTML dhtm, dhtml, htm, html, htx, sht, shtm, shtml, stml, xht, xhtm, xhtml, xml, txt Yes Yes Yes
application/x-java-class JAVA Applet class Yes Yes Yes
application/x-kep kep Yes Yes Yes
application/x-otf otf Yes Yes Yes
application/x-sapshortcut sap, sapc Yes Yes Yes
application/x-shockwave-flash Macromedia Flash swf Yes Yes Yes
application/x-silverlight-app PKZIP xap Yes Yes Yes
application/x-sim sim Yes Yes Yes
application/x-tar TAR File tar Yes Yes Yes
application/x-vbs * Yes Yes Yes
application/zip ZIP File zip, zipx Yes Yes Yes
audio/basic Audio snd, au Yes Yes Yes
audio/midi MIDI mid, midi, rmi, mdi, kar Yes Yes Yes
audio/x-aiff Audio InterChange File Format from Apple/SGI aiff, aif, aifc Yes Yes Yes
audio/x-mpeg-3 MP3 mp3 Yes Yes Yes
audio/x-realaudio Real Audio ra Yes Yes Yes
audio/x-voc Creative Voice Format(VOC) voc Yes Yes Yes
image/bmp Windows BMP bmp Yes Yes Yes
image/gif GIF gif Yes Yes Yes
image/ico Windows Icon ico Yes Yes Yes
image/jpeg JPEG jpg, jpeg, jpe, jif, jfif, jfi Yes Yes Yes
image/msp Microsoft Paint msp Yes Yes Yes
image/png Portable Network Graphics png Yes Yes Yes
image/ppm PPM image ppm Yes Yes Yes
image/svg+xml svg Yes Yes Yes
image/tiff TIFF tif, tiff Yes Yes Yes
image/vnd.ms-modi Microsoft Document Imaging mdi Yes Yes Yes
image/x-cpt Corel PhotoPaint cpt Yes Yes Yes
image/x-pcx PCX pcx Yes Yes Yes
image/x-pict Macintosh Bitmap pct Yes Yes Yes
image/x-ras Sun Raster(RAS) ras Yes Yes Yes
image/x-wmf Windows Metafile wmf Yes Yes Yes
text/csv CSV csv, txt Yes Yes Yes
text/html HTML dhtm, dhtml, htm, html, htx, sht, shtm, shtml, stml, xht, xhtm, xhtml, xml, txt Yes Yes Yes
text/plain * Yes Yes Yes
text/plain Text File txt Yes Yes Yes
text/xml XML dhtm, dhtml, htm, html, htx, sht, shtm, shtml, stml, xht, xhtm, xhtml, xml, txt Yes Yes Yes
text/xsl XSL xsl Yes Yes Yes
unknown/unknown * Yes Yes Yes
video/mpeg * Yes Yes Yes
video/quicktime Quick Time Media qt Yes Yes Yes
video/x-fli AutoDesk Animator fli Yes Yes Yes
video/x-flv Macromedia Flash FLV Video flv Yes Yes Yes
video/x-ms-asf Advanced Streaming Format asf Yes Yes Yes
video/x-scm Lotus ScreenCam Movie scm Yes Yes Yes