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You said you are running linux so you are pretty safe from a windows virus. Judging by the book and the alert it likely saw some PowerShell code and got a bit concerned about PowerShell inside a pdf inside a zip, a known way to deliver malware.
I would do 2 things.
Contact humble support, it may have been reported and they can reassure you of the validity of the file. Secondly, Submit the file to virus total and see if anything else sees it as a known malware sample.
Hey thanks for the reply. I just discovered this virustotal website and submitted the file there. Here is the results from their scan. It looks like only ClamAV found the virus so it may be a false positive. I just got worried because I often buy books from HumbleBundle and this is the second time ClamAV quarantined a file from them.
Might be worth tracking down one of the researchers submitting to the clamav software repos and forwarding them a copy of the flagged zip. If they don't dig in and find malware, they could at least improve the detection algo