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VirusTotal
VirusTotal is one of the most known online service that analyzes files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and website scanners. At the same time, it may be used as a means to detect false positives, i.e. innocuous resources detected as malicious by one or more scanners.
Getting VirusTotal
- 1.Register/Sign-in to VirusTotal
- 2.Go to My API key
- 3.Request a private APT key
- Do not disclose your private key to anyone that you do not trust.
- Do not embed your private in scripts or software from which it can be easily retrieved
VirusTotal gem
ruby-virustotal is VirusTotal automation and convenience tool for hash, file and URL submission.
- Install virustotal gem1gem install virustotalCopied!
Command line usage
You can use ruby-virustotal gem as command line tool
- Create virustotal local profile To interact with virustotal as command line tool, you have to create a profile contains you API key. The profile will get created in
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virustotal --create-config
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cat ~/.virustotal
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virustotal:
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api-key:
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timeout: 10
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edit the file and add your API key
- Searching a file of hashes1virustotal -f <file_with_hashes_one_per_line>Copied!
- Searching a single hash1virustotal -h FD287794107630FA3116800E617466A9Copied!
- Searching a file of hashes and outputting to XML1virustotal -f <file_with_hashes_one_per_line> -xCopied!
- Upload a file to VirusTotal and wait for analysis1virustotal -u </path/to/file>Copied!
- Search for a single URL1virustotal -s "http://www.google.com"Copied!
uirusu gem
uirusu is an VirusTotal automation and convenience tool for hash, file and URL submission.
- Install uirusu gem1gem install uirusuCopied!
Usage is identical to virustotal gem
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