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Malva.RE: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Malva.RE is a SaaS service for static and structural malware analysis. Files are dissected without being executed, and the layers in which malicious code is encapsulated are stripped away automatically. According to the vendor, it supports more than fifty file formats, including Office documents, PDF, VBA macros, scripts, AutoIt executables, PowerShell, LNK and MSI. Features include a VBA decompiler with detection of VBA stomping and purging, multi-layer deobfuscation, and extraction of malware configurations and IOCs. The target groups are SOC analysts, CERTs and CSIRTs, and threat researchers. A free account and a demo request are offered.

Malva.RE is developed by Yneos, a French SAS that also provides cybersecurity services, with offices in Le Bourget-du-Lac, France. An on-premise version is offered to organisations that want to control where samples are stored. The trust page states hosting in the European Union and a design aimed at GDPR compliance, without naming a provider or country. A data processing agreement is not mentioned there. Ask about the hosting location, the sub-processors and the processing terms before you upload sensitive samples.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 17, 2026
Headquarters
FranceVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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European alternatives to Malva.RE

The European alternatives to Malva.RE come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Malva.RE

Malva.RE is headquartered in France and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Malva.RE scores best on data residency.

Malva.RE is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Malva.RE together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Malva.RE?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Malva.RE include 1Protection.AI, 6cure Threat Protection and Actalis. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Malva.RE?

Our list of EU alternatives to Malva.RE is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Malva.RE GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Malva.RE is headquartered in France (EU) and hosts data in the EU. That makes Malva.RE an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 17, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

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