VirusTotal is a free service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware.
Advanced features & tools Searching with VirusTotal
VirusTotal stores all the analyses it performs, this allows users to search for reports given an MD5, SHA1, SHA256 or URL. Search responses return the latest scan performed on the resource of interest. VirusTotal also allows you to search through the comments that users post on files and URLs, inspect our passive DNS data and retrieve threat intelligence details regarding domains and IP addresses. Learn more about searching with VirusTotal.
Sending files as email attachments
VirusTotal's email interface lets users send files via email and receive the scan results in their mailbox. The files are uploaded as email attachments and the results can be received either as plain text or XML. The files sent via email have a lower priority, therefore, the scan results will not always be sent back immediately. Learn more about VirusTotal's email interface.
Public API
The VirusTotal API lets you upload and scan files, submit and scan URLs, access finished scan reports and make automatic comments on URLs and files without the need of using the HTML website interface. In other words, it allows you to build simple scripts to access the information generated by VirusTotal. Its public version is limited to at most 4 requests of any nature in a given 1 minute time frame. Go ahead and read the VirusTotal Public API documentation.
Browser Extensions
The VirusTotal team has developed several browser plugins that simplify the process of scanning Internet resources with VirusTotal. They allow users to download files directly with VirusTotal's web application prior to storing them in users' PCs. Moreover, they will not only scan files, but also URLs. The scanning options are embedded in the browser's context menu, making the analysis process as easy as clicking a single button. Check out VirusTotal's browser extensions and trick out your browser.
Desktop Applications
To upload a file to VirusTotal, you can visit the main analysis site, click the "Choose file" button to select a file from your hard drive, and then click the "Scan it!" button. You can make this process even easier with the free VirusTotal desktop utilities. A set of desktop applications have been developed for the main operating systems so as to make the process of scanning a file as easy as right-clicking on the file of interest. Browse through the Virustotal's desktop applications and download the one targeting your operating system.
Mobile device applications
Mobile phones and tablets are an ever growing market, the bad guys are well aware of this and are now indiscriminately targeting these devices. As the share of these devices continues to rise, the attacks on these platforms are expected to keep increasing. VirusTotal is committed to help end-users in protecting their devices, thus, we have released mobile device tools that allow you to scan the applications on your phone with VirusTotal. Browse through the VirusTotal's mobile device applications and download the suitable one for your mobile operating system.
VirusTotal Community
Fighting malware requires close collaboration. The overwhelming malware production rate, the growing problem of false positives and the everlasting threat of false negatives cannot be counteracted without the determined engagement of all actors involved in end-user system security. Keeping this in mind, we have created VirusTotal Community, a space where the antivirus industry and malware researcher can meet end-users in an effort to make internet a safer place. VirusTotal Community allows you to rate and place comments on files and web sites. Comments can be of any nature: disinfection instructions, in-the-wild locations, reverse engineering reports, etc. Learn how to register and interact with other users in VirusTotal Community.
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Advanced features & tools
Searching with VirusTotal
VirusTotal stores all the analyses it performs, this allows users to search for reports given an MD5, SHA1, SHA256 or URL. Search responses return the latest scan performed on the resource of interest. VirusTotal also allows you to search through the comments that users post on files and URLs, inspect our passive DNS data and retrieve threat intelligence details regarding domains and IP addresses. Learn more about searching with VirusTotal.
Sending files as email attachments
VirusTotal's email interface lets users send files via email and receive the scan results in their mailbox. The files are uploaded as email attachments and the results can be received either as plain text or XML. The files sent via email have a lower priority, therefore, the scan results will not always be sent back immediately. Learn more about VirusTotal's email interface.
Public API
The VirusTotal API lets you upload and scan files, submit and scan URLs, access finished scan reports and make automatic comments on URLs and files without the need of using the HTML website interface. In other words, it allows you to build simple scripts to access the information generated by VirusTotal. Its public version is limited to at most 4 requests of any nature in a given 1 minute time frame. Go ahead and read the VirusTotal Public API documentation.
Browser Extensions
The VirusTotal team has developed several browser plugins that simplify the process of scanning Internet resources with VirusTotal. They allow users to download files directly with VirusTotal's web application prior to storing them in users' PCs. Moreover, they will not only scan files, but also URLs. The scanning options are embedded in the browser's context menu, making the analysis process as easy as clicking a single button. Check out VirusTotal's browser extensions and trick out your browser.
Desktop Applications
To upload a file to VirusTotal, you can visit the main analysis site, click the "Choose file" button to select a file from your hard drive, and then click the "Scan it!" button. You can make this process even easier with the free VirusTotal desktop utilities. A set of desktop applications have been developed for the main operating systems so as to make the process of scanning a file as easy as right-clicking on the file of interest. Browse through the Virustotal's desktop applications and download the one targeting your operating system.
Mobile device applications
Mobile phones and tablets are an ever growing market, the bad guys are well aware of this and are now indiscriminately targeting these devices. As the share of these devices continues to rise, the attacks on these platforms are expected to keep increasing. VirusTotal is committed to help end-users in protecting their devices, thus, we have released mobile device tools that allow you to scan the applications on your phone with VirusTotal. Browse through the VirusTotal's mobile device applications and download the suitable one for your mobile operating system.
VirusTotal Community
Fighting malware requires close collaboration. The overwhelming malware production rate, the growing problem of false positives and the everlasting threat of false negatives cannot be counteracted without the determined engagement of all actors involved in end-user system security. Keeping this in mind, we have created VirusTotal Community, a space where the antivirus industry and malware researcher can meet end-users in an effort to make internet a safer place. VirusTotal Community allows you to rate and place comments on files and web sites. Comments can be of any nature: disinfection instructions, in-the-wild locations, reverse engineering reports, etc. Learn how to register and interact with other users in VirusTotal Community.
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