Trojan Malware detected for VMware Avi Load Balancer 22.1.6-2p4 patch file

Products

• VMware Avi Load Balancer

Issue/Introduction

After uploading avi_patch-22.1.6-2p4-9021.pkg patch image in Storage Container, Microsoft Defender for Cloud displayed the security alert  stating that "A malicious blob was uploaded to your storage account ".
Identified that were were few files which azure was marking it as Malware
These files/scripts are internal tools which was packaged in this build.

Alert observed in Service Account email after avi_patch-22.1.6-2p4-9021 file was uploaded. 

Environment

Azure

Cause

The files which are tagged as malware are internal scripts used for testing the product with negative scenarios. Hence, these files triggered the malware alert

Resolution

Upgrade to 22.1.6 2p5