Brothers, this is awesome. Google has created a file detection killer move, and it’s been secretly kept internally for years—now it’s finally open-sourced!

This tool has been running internally at Google for quite a few years. Gmail, cloud drive, and safe browsing all rely on it to back them up, and it needs to verify thousands of billions of files every week.

Now it’s directly open-sourced and launched. It’s called Magika— it digs out the true identity of files. No matter how they’re disguised, you won’t be able to get past it.

Rename malware as “resume.pdf”? Magika will check right away whether it’s a virus.
Disguise scripts as image files? It still can’t escape its detection.
All the tricks hackers play by tampering with file extensions? It can spot them all.

Built on an AI model trained with 100 million files, covering over 200 file types, with a detection accuracy of 99%, and only 5 milliseconds per single-file scan.

One command to install:
 pip install magika 

Back when it guarded Google’s hundreds of millions of users, the same kind of powerful tool is now available for everyday people, too.