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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours 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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[-] Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago

If I use the VM with no network connections, is there any way for me to manually find malware hidden in the files? I'm not really sure what to look for specifically. I definitely want to try using a VM to more closely inspect the files

[-] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago

This is way outside of my expertise. I'm not sure you'd find anything VirusTotal's behaviour checks didn't find, anyway. Usually, if I'm at all unsure, I just won't run it.