How to open a clam antivirus database file

Question

I want to read the contents of a .CVD file (Clam AV database file).

How can I do this? I tried deleting the first 512 bytes of the file and then rename it to .tar.gz but it won't open.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '11 at 00:49

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Here is the best way to strip the header:

dd if=clam.cvd of=clam.tar.gz bs=512 skip=1

Then you can use tar to extract:

tar xzvf clam.tar.gz

answered Dec 14 '11 at 00:49

Paul

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 25 '15 at 09:04

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ClamAV comes with a tool to verify and also extract database files called sigtool. To extract you can run

sigtool -u clam.cvd

which will extract the files in the current directory.

answered Nov 25 '15 at 09:04

Kris

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 13 '20 at 21:02

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I wrote a little golang package that downloads and extracts parts of the clamwin mdb files.

answered Sep 13 '20 at 21:02

Will

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