There are provided measures for enabling dynamic remote malware scanning. Such measures could exemplarily include identification of an electronic file to be scanned for malware, generation of at least one scanning object of the identified electronic file on the basis of a dynamic configuration by a remote entity, said at least one scanning object being generated by using malware-susceptible data of the identified electronic file and neglecting malware-insusceptible data of the identified electronic file, transfer of the at least one scanning object of the identified electronic file for remote malware scanning to the remote entity, and execution of a malware scan of the at least one scanning object of the electronic file at the remote entity by a malware scanning engine or application.