>> Does clamav have a mechanism to find out a file is an archive without
>> relying on its extension? For example does it know it has to unzip a
>> zipped file even if its extension was changed to a random one
>> different than .zip ?
>
> ClamAV doesn't rely on file extensions. It uses magic numbers, special
> signatures and heuristics to detect file types.

Excellent. Thanks for the fast reply.

-- Alejandro
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