How to validate a large torrented file is clean? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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How do you validate that what you torrented is clean/no malware/spyware? Specifically, I torrented two things:

Astute Graphics Plug-ins Elite Bundle 3.9.1.7z from teamos. *It is 678MB so I can't upload to Virustotal
Master Collection 2025 from uztracker (which is listed on monkrus's website's list of trackers). It is 37.5GB so I can't upload to Virustotal.

I'm not sure what I should to do to be honest.

Edit: Would splitting the 37.5GB file into 650MB pieces and then scanning with virustotal help? Not sure if downloaded files need to be whole for it to work properly.

This is the results from virustotal (I could only scan 4 files in the master collection without running the iso)

Thank you.

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[-] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Note that sophisticated malware [attempts to] identify whether it is running in a VM / testbed / analysis scenario and may behave and look different between that runtime scenario and "normal use".

Analysis in a VM may not be sufficient to determine whether it is safe outside of it.

[-] Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

If it detects that it is in a VM and doesn't activate the malware, then I'm perfectly okay just using the software inside the VM.

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