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I went to XDA to check, and it looks like you already made a post in that device's questions forum, but didn't check the ROMs forum? I see a bunch of posts: https://xdaforums.com/f/samsung-galaxy-j3-2017-roms-kernels-recoveries.6625/
I've never seen builds on XDA that have malware bundled, but they usually have the build sources posted so you can check and build it yourself if you're so motivated.
Well, they say that development for these phones is mostly dead.
Also, I do think that getting a virus by simply downloading Android ROMs from some unknown source (or an open source project maintained only by 1 person) would be quite easy. Not to mention that xz-utils, an open-source project was recently backdoor-ed.