What is a File Malware Scanner?
A file malware scanner is a software program that can scan files for malware. This software can detect viruses, trojans, spyware, rootkits and other malicious programs that may be uploaded to your storage service, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The software can search for obfuscated or polymorphic variants of malware that have been used in previously seen attacks, and it can identify the type of file based on its code, file size, sectional or whole-file hashes, and printable strings.
How to Choose the Best File Malware Scanner for Your Device
The different detection methods have their own pros and cons. Specific detection looks for certain characteristics that are unique to specific malware, like a code signature or obfuscated format and is usually fast, but it’s easy for a threat actor to evade these types of checks by changing the malware’s code, moving it to a new place, encrypting it, or using other tactics. Broader detection, which searches for many conditions in a file to determine its rating, can be slower and less accurate but is more likely to flag clean files as suspicious.
Ensure that your managed file transfer solution can handle the threats your organization faces by enabling malware scanning. Depending on your needs, you can use workflows to check every file that’s uploaded for viruses and malicious programs and quarantine any files with malware, or notify the uploader of the issue so they can take action before the virus spreads to other files in their space.