sineflow/clamav

ClamAV PHP Client for Symfony

v2.1.0 2026-03-05 17:56 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2
• ext-sockets: *
• symfony/config: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/dependency-injection: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/http-kernel: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0
• symfony/yaml: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0

Requires (Dev)

• php-coveralls/php-coveralls: ^2.5
• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.0
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^3.0

MIT

• Plamen Mishev

• symfony
• bundle
• clamav

README

This library is a PHP client for working with a ClamAV daemon. It also provides optional Symfony integration.

Requirements:

You need to have ClamAV installed and configured to accept socket and/or network connections: https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Installing.html

Installation

$ composer require sineflow/clamav

Usage as a standalone library

$scanner = new Scanner(new ScanStrategyClamdUnix($socket));
$scanner = new Scanner(new ScanStrategyClamdNetwork($host, $port));

Usage as a Symfony bundle

Enable the bundle

// config/bundles.php

return [
    // ...
    Sineflow\ClamAV\Bundle\SineflowClamAVBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

Configuration:

sineflow_clam_av:
    strategy: clamd_unix
    socket: "/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl"

or

sineflow_clam_av:
    strategy: clamd_network
    host: 127.0.0.1
    port: 3310

Scanning files

use Sineflow\ClamAV\Scanner;
use Sineflow\ClamAV\Exception\FileScanException;
use Sineflow\ClamAV\Exception\SocketException;

public function myAction(Scanner $scanner)
{
    try {
        $scannedFile = $scanner->scan($file);
        if (!$scannedFile->isClean()) {
            echo $scannedFile->getVirusName();
        }
    } catch (SocketException $e) {
        ...
    } catch (FileScanException $e) {
        ...
    }
}

Scanning streams

When the file is not on the local filesystem or not accessible to the ClamAV daemon (e.g. files stored via Flysystem in S3, SFTP, etc.), you can use scanStream() to send the file contents directly to ClamAV via its INSTREAM protocol.

use Sineflow\ClamAV\Scanner;
use Sineflow\ClamAV\Exception\FileScanException;
use Sineflow\ClamAV\Exception\SocketException;

// In a real application, the stream would typically come from
// Flysystem's readStream(), an HTTP response, or similar source.
public function myAction(Scanner $scanner)
{
    $stream = fopen('/path/to/file', 'rb');
    try {
        $scannedFile = $scanner->scanStream($stream, 'my-upload.pdf');
        if (!$scannedFile->isClean()) {
            echo $scannedFile->getVirusName();
        }
    } catch (SocketException $e) {
        ...
    } catch (FileScanException $e) {
        ...
    } finally {
        fclose($stream);
    }
}

Running tests

docker compose run --rm phpunit
docker compose down