Overview
A service that analyzes files and URLs for viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content using over 70 antivirus scanners.
- Aggregates data from virtually all major security vendors.
- Huge historical database of malware samples.
- Excellent community comments and graphs.
- Public submissions are visible to everyone (privacy risk for sensitive files).
- API rate limits on the free tier are strict.
- File/URL scanning.
- Search by file hash (MD5/SHA1/SHA256).
- Passive DNS replication data.
- Checking if a downloaded file is safe.
- Investigating a suspicious IP address or domain.
- Finding related malicious infrastructure (Relation graph).
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