Error running capa as library using python 3.9

[r0ny123]

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Description

Got the following error:

loading : 100%|█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 702/702 [00:00<00:00, 995.80 rules/s]
matching: 100%|█████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 875/875 [00:10<00:00, 82.74 functions/s, skipped 398 library functions (45%)]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Rony\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "C:\Users\Rony\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\Rony\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts\capa.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Rony\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\capa\main.py", line 1137, in main
    print(capa.render.default.render(meta, rules, capabilities))
  File "C:\Users\Rony\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\capa\render\default.py", line 213, in render
    doc = rd.ResultDocument.from_capa(meta, rules, capabilities)
  File "C:\Users\Rony\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\capa\render\result_document.py", line 549, in from_capa
    meta=RuleMetadata.from_capa(rule),
  File "C:\Users\Rony\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\capa\render\result_document.py", line 497, in from_capa
    return cls(
  File "pydantic\main.py", line 341, in pydantic.main.BaseModel.__init__
pydantic.error_wrappers.ValidationError: 1 validation error for RuleMetadata
examples
  none is not an allowed value (type=type_error.none.not_allowed)

Steps to Reproduce

1. pip install flare-capa
2. run capa <sample>
3. Get the following error : See description

Expected behavior:

CAPA should extract the information as expected.

Actual behavior:

See description

Versions

capa 4.0.0 windows 10 python 3.9

Additional Information

Seems to be an issue with python 3.9

[r0ny123]

I'm reopening this because it seems that the above error can only be produced with this sample e58b9bbb7bcdf3e901453b7b9c9e514fed1e53565e3280353dccc77cde26a98e only. Weird.

[doomedraven]

interesting i have similar error on mac os capa v4 rules are on branch v4 too sample is the same family as r0ny123 - 2c54b789158be9cbeb3f994989441dd999803e6a36c97f7875a76e18bdcff1c7

capa executed as -> capa -s github/public/capa/sigs -r github/public/capa-rules/ sample

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/capa", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "<redacted>/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/capa/main.py", line 1137, in main
    print(capa.render.default.render(meta, rules, capabilities))
  File "<redacted>/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/capa/render/default.py", line 213, in render
    doc = rd.ResultDocument.from_capa(meta, rules, capabilities)
  File "<redacted>/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/capa/render/result_document.py", line 549, in from_capa
    meta=RuleMetadata.from_capa(rule),
  File "<redacted>/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/capa/render/result_document.py", line 497, in from_capa
    return cls(
  File "pydantic/main.py", line 341, in pydantic.main.BaseModel.__init__
pydantic.error_wrappers.ValidationError: 1 validation error for RuleMetadata
description
  str type expected (type=type_error.str)

[mr-tz]

Thanks, we'll look into this. Likely an issue with an invalid field we set in a rule.

[mr-tz]

Fixed in https://github.com/mandiant/capa/releases/tag/v4.0.1

[r0ny123]

Hey, @mr-tz, didn't ask earlier but why was that happening for that specific malware family?

[doomedraven]

someone need to watch releases :P that of specific rule of vs-obfuscation