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.

What do you want to do with it? Clam AV has libraries that you can use to read at least some of the data from the CVD files. — haimg, Dec 13 '11 at 19:41
i want to create an antivirus.so i need the database to open and read the signatures — Pouyan Izadi, Dec 20 '11 at 09:36

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

sorry but i didn't realize this codes...where can i write this codes?is it Linux codes? – Pouyan Izadi Dec 20 '11 at 09:38
@PouyanIzadi yes, this is linux. Just do this from a bash shell to extract the files. – Paul Dec 20 '11 at 11:46

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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