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Virustotal has a back-end API that is pseudo-public. You just have to call them and pay $$$$ for access. For enough money they will absolutely let you download
by mox1 6y ago
Virustotal has a back-end API that is pseudo-public. You just have to call them and pay $$$$ for access. For enough money they will absolutely let you download every sample submitted to them, in near real-time. All the big 3 letter US agencies are getting this feed. So this is very doable by the FBI / NSA, probably also big players like Microsoft, Amazon, etc. if they cared to have the feed.
- peter_d_sherman 6y agoI don't care about the samples; I care about the detection/non-detection rates in a historical, logged, public-record context... who detected what, when, but perhaps more importantly, who didn't detect what, when? In fact, if VirusTotal doesn't do it, perhaps in the future I'll create a website -- send a file to VirusTotal AND create a historical public record about what VirusTotal said about it at that exact point in time. VirusTotal already does the first part; I want it, or some third party, to do the second...