VirusTotal

VirusTotal (developed by Google Cloud) is the world’s leading crowdsourced threat intelligence, automated malware analysis, and multi-engine inspection platform used by cybersecurity professionals, SOC teams, and reverse engineers worldwide. Operating as a centralized global threat repository, VirusTotal inspects suspicious files, URLs, domains, and IP addresses by running them concurrently against over 70 commercial antivirus engines, website scanners, and threat intelligence feeds. The platform provides immediate, consensus-driven threat verdicts, detailing whether a file is recognized as malicious, benign, or suspicious across leading security vendors. Beyond basic signature scanning, VirusTotal executes submitted files inside dynamic sandboxes, recording behavioral process trees, registry modifications, dropped files, and network communications, with all observed behaviors mapped directly to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The enterprise version, VirusTotal Enterprise, gives threat hunters access to VirusTotal Intelligence—an indexed database containing billions of historical malware samples—allowing analysts to search files using advanced facets, query YARA rules against incoming global file streams (VirusTotal Livehunt), and track adversary infrastructure visually using VirusTotal Graph. VirusTotal provides an essential global foundation for threat intelligence, triage, and response.