Wednesday, June 27, 2012

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VirusTotal += Cyscon SIRT URL Scanner

We have just introduced Cyscon SIRT (C-SIRT) malicious URL dataset in VirusTotal's URL scanning engine. This is an example of the Cyscon (C-SIRT) output, do not forget to refer to the additional information section in order to see the threat information provided: https://www.virustotal.com/url/252ee025a4a6b57f0b302a97f44ea305863a4cb9419e6f141161cd72b47addb0/analysis/1340792226/ The Cyscon team...

Friday, June 15, 2012

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VirusTotal += Sophos URL scanner

Lately we had been introducing many domain characterization datasets/tools in our URL scanning engine, today we are excited to announce that Sophos' fully-fledged URL filtering solution has become part of VirusTotal and will be characterizing both full URLs and domains. This is an example of the Sophos output with their malicious test domain, do not forget to refer to the additional information section...

Monday, June 11, 2012

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VirusTotal for Android

Years ago there was much fuzz about mobile malware, yet the devices themselves were so limited that the claims made were considered no more than hypes developed exclusively with marketing purposes so as to sell more mobile phone antivirus solutions. The rise of smartphones has made what once were deceitful...
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VirusTotal += Palevo Tracker

It seems that lately it is all about domain scanners/datasets, today we have included Palevo Tracker. Palevo is a worm that spreads using instant messaging, P2P networks and removable drives (like USB sticks), Palevo Tracker records the C&C hosts being used by the worm variants. Since it is a malicious domain dataset it appears in the additional information section of URL reports, characterizing...

Thursday, June 07, 2012

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VirusTotal += hpHosts

This morning we announced that we had integrated Malware Domain Blocklist in VirusTotal's URL scanning engine. Continuing the trend of including domain scanners and datasets, we have just added hpHosts and we would like to give them a really warm welcome. hpHosts maintains an online...
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VirusTotal += Malware Domain Blocklist

We are happy to announce that Malware Domain Blocklist has been integrated in VirusTotal's URL scanning engine. Malware Domain Blocklist is a dataset of malicious domains rather than a full URL scanner. As such, its results appear in the additional information field of VirusTotal reports: The...