virustotal-api 1.1.9

Installation

$ pip install virustotal-api

Usage

from __future__ import print_function
import json
import hashlib
from virus_total_apis import PublicApi as VirusTotalPublicApi

API_KEY = 'Sign-Up for API Key at virustotal.com'

EICAR = "X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*"
EICAR_MD5 = hashlib.md5(EICAR).hexdigest()

vt = VirusTotalPublicApi(API_KEY)

response = vt.get_file_report(EICAR_MD5)
print(json.dumps(response, sort_keys=False, indent=4))

Output:

{
    "response_code": 200,
    "results": {
        "scan_id": "275a021bbfb6489e54d471899f7db9d1663fc695ec2fe2a2c4538aabf651fd0f-1397510237",
        "sha1": "3395856ce81f2b7382dee72602f798b642f14140",
        "resource": "44d88612fea8a8f36de82e1278abb02f",
        "response_code": 1,
        "scan_date": "2014-04-14 21:17:17",
        "permalink": "https://www.virustotal.com/file/275a021bbfb6489e54d471899f7db9d1663fc695ec2fe2a2c4538aabf651fd0f/analysis/1397510237/",
        "verbose_msg": "Scan finished, scan information embedded in this object",
        "sha256": "275a021bbfb6489e54d471899f7db9d1663fc695ec2fe2a2c4538aabf651fd0f",
        "positives": 49,
        "total": 51,
        "md5": "44d88612fea8a8f36de82e1278abb02f",
        "scans": {
            "Bkav": {
                "detected": true,
                "version": "1.3.0.4959",
                "result": "DOS.EiracA.Trojan",
                "update": "20140412"
            },
            "MicroWorld-eScan": {
                "detected": true,
                "version": "12.0.250.0",
                "result": "EICAR-Test-File",
                "update": "20140414"
            },
            "nProtect": {
                "detected": true,
                "version": "2014-04-14.02",
                "result": "EICAR-Test-File",
                "update": "20140414"
            },
            ...<snip>...
            "AVG": {
                "detected": true,
                "version": "13.0.0.3169",
                "result": "EICAR_Test",
                "update": "20140414"
            },
            "Panda": {
                "detected": true,
                "version": "10.0.3.5",
                "result": "EICAR-AV-TEST-FILE",
                "update": "20140414"
            },
            "Qihoo-360": {
                "detected": true,
                "version": "1.0.0.1015",
                "result": "Trojan.Generic",
                "update": "20140414"
            }
        }
    }
}

Testing

To run the tests:

$ ./tests

Documentation

You’re looking at it.

Issues

Find a bug? Want more features? Find something missing in the documentation? Let me know! Please don’t hesitate to file an issue and I’ll get right on it.

Contributing

See all contributors on GitHub.

Please update the HISTORY.rst, and submit a Pull Request on GitHub.

License

MIT Copyright (c) 2014-2017 blacktop

Release History

1.1.9 (2018-01-03 aka the day the CPUs fell)

Intel API Fix

• https://github.com/blacktop/virustotal-api/pull/22 (credit: @leadZERO)

1.1.7 (2017-05-28)

Intel API Fix

• https://github.com/blacktop/virustotal-api/pull/18 (credit: @doug-the-guy)

1.1.6 (2017-05-14)

Py3 Fix

• Change e.message to str(message) (credit: [@DeanF](https://github.com/blacktop/virustotal-api/pull/19))

1.1.5 (2017-04-13)

API Changes

• Added Intelligence notifications feed and ability to programmatically delete notifications from the feed. (credit: @keithjjones)

1.1.4 (2017-03-11)

Fixed timeout functionality, removed unnecessary methods

• Fixed the timeout parameter in the PublicApi and removes unnecessary code in the PrivateApi (credit: @mrredamber aka LEGEND)

1.1.3 (2017-02-03)

Request Timeout Functionality

• Adds a timeout parameter to methods that make requests to the VirusTotal API (credit: @mrredamber aka LEGEND)

1.1.2 (2016-04-13)

API Changes

• Re-adding the ability to use files from memory as well as from disk. (credit: @tweemeterjop)

1.1.1 (2016-03-13)

API Changes

• Adding file/url feed private API endpoint.

1.0.9 (2016-01-01)

Privacyfixes

• Fix scan_file (upload to VT), do not leak full path. (credit: @Rafiot)

1.0.8 (2014-12-26)

Bugfixes

• Fixed get_url_report method for the Private API (credit: @John-Lin)

1.0.7 (2014-10-17)

Bugfixes

• Fixed get_network_traffic method to return the pcap data (credit: adrianherrera)

1.0.6 (2014-09-22)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a small typo in the private API’s scan_file method (credit: adrianherrera)

1.0.5 (2014-05-18)

Bugfixes

• Fixing README.rst for better PYPI presentation.

1.0.2 (2014-05-18)

API Changes

• Changing folder structure so when people import it it is not dumb :(

1.0.1 (2014-04-14)

Bugfixes

• Trying to fix setup.py for deploying to PYPI.