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.

  • Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Hey thank you for the info. Which VM do you use? How do you disable the various types of sharing with the host? Also, how do you validate? Sorry for all the questions, but that seems like it may be my only option

      • Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        7 months 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.comOPEnglish
          1·
          7 months 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.

      • Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Thank you for the detailed response. Just to confirm, is Hyper-V your sandbox VM? I used ESET to scan the files I torrented, but they look very suspicious from virustotal, but I don’t really know how to parse the info - knowing if it is a false positive/etc.