Service

VirusTotal

Readiness Level
Intermediate

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Description

VirusTotal inspects items with over 70 antivirus scanners and URL/domain blocklisting services, in addition to a variety of tools, to extract signals from the studied content. Users can select a file from a computer via the browser and send it to VirusTotal. Submissions may be scripted in any programming language using the HTTP-based public API.

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