diff --git a/pkg/detectors/generic/generic.go b/pkg/detectors/generic/generic.go
index 0e32fe5d07ad..22c77cdf6f63 100644
--- a/pkg/detectors/generic/generic.go
+++ b/pkg/detectors/generic/generic.go
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ func New() Scanner {
 		`[A-Z]{2,6}\-[0-9]{2,6}`, // issue tracker
 		`#[a-fA-F0-9]{6}\b`,      // hex color code
 		`\b[A-Fa-f0-9]{64}\b`,    // hex encoded hash
-		`\b[A-Fa-f0-9]{32}\b`,    // hex encoded hash
 		`https?:\/\/(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)`, // http
 		`\b([/]{0,1}([\w]+[/])+[\w\.]*)\b`,                 // filepath
 		`([0-9A-F]{2}[:-]){5}([0-9A-F]{2})`,                // MAC addr
@@ -28,7 +27,6 @@ func New() Scanner {
 		`[v|\-]\d\.\d`, //version
 		`\d\.\d\.\d-`,  //version
 		`[\d]{1,3}\.[\d]{1,3}\.[\d]{1,3}\.[\d]{1,3}`,      // IPs and OIDs
-		`\b[A-Fa-f0-9x]{6,99}\b`,                          // hex encoding
 		`[A-Fa-f0-9x]{2}:[A-Fa-f0-9x]{2}:[A-Fa-f0-9x]{2}`, // hex encoding
 		`[\w]+\([\w, ]+\)`,                                // function
 	}