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YARA
Yara is a popular tool that finds its use in helping researchers to classify and detect malware.
As YARA is an open source project, you can find more
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Linux has (free) tools to improve security and detect/remove malware: Lynis,Chkrootkit,Rkhunter,ClamAV,Vuls,LMD,radare2,Yara,ntopng,maltrail,Snort,Suricata... Source: over 1 year ago
I suspect Virustotal doesn't do deep scans of uploaded files but rather just runs YARA rules over it If your custom build would be used by more people and their antivirus software would check that file you would most likely accumulate more false positives over time. Source: over 3 years ago
You can download Yara from here - https://virustotal.github.io/yara/. Source: almost 4 years ago
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