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Yes and if viruses use something like base64 encoding or other methods, the hashes dont match anymore.
As far as I understood it, it is pretty easy to make your virus permanently un-hashable by just always changing some bits
The xz backdoor was a packaged file distributed with the standard packages though. It would be trivial to find.
This is obviously not about this known file.
It is about “would this scanner detect a system package from the official repos opening an ssh connection”
Sorry, I was responding to:
I HIGHLY doubt that they would detect the XZ backdoor