• boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    Yes and if viruses use something like base64 encoding or other methods, the hashes dont match anymore.

    As far as I understood it, it is pretty easy to make your virus permanently un-hashable by just always changing some bits

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      The xz backdoor was a packaged file distributed with the standard packages though. It would be trivial to find.

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        5 months ago

        This is obviously not about this known file.

        It is about “would this scanner detect a system package from the official repos opening an ssh connection”