Posh-VirusTotal
A PowerShell module for interacting with VirusTotal's API to analyze suspicious files, URLs, domains, and IP addresses.
What is Posh-VirusTotal?
Posh-VirusTotal is a PowerShell module that provides a comprehensive interface to VirusTotal's API for security analysis. It allows users to programmatically submit and retrieve reports on files, URLs, domains, and IP addresses to detect malware and other threats. The module supports both public and private VirusTotal API v2, enabling automated threat intelligence workflows.
Security professionals, system administrators, and incident responders who use PowerShell for automation and need to integrate VirusTotal's threat intelligence into their security operations.
Developers choose Posh-VirusTotal because it offers a native PowerShell experience with consistent verb-noun cmdlets, eliminating the need for manual API calls. It provides encryption for API keys, proxy support, and access to advanced VirusTotal features like behavioral reports and community comments.
Overview
PowerShell Module to interact with VirusTotal
Use Cases
Best For
- Automating malware analysis of suspicious files in security workflows
- Checking URLs and domains for malicious indicators during incident response
- Retrieving threat intelligence reports for IP addresses and domains
- Integrating VirusTotal scanning into PowerShell-based security scripts
- Downloading file samples by hash for further investigation
- Scheduling and managing file rescans through the VirusTotal API
Not Ideal For
- Teams using Python, Bash, or other non-PowerShell scripting languages for security automation
- Projects requiring access to VirusTotal's latest API v3 features for real-time threat intelligence
- Environments where GUI-based manual analysis tools are preferred over command-line automation
Pros & Cons
Pros
Follows PowerShell verb-noun conventions with cmdlets like Get-VTFileReport and Submit-VTFile, making it seamless for existing PowerShell users to adopt, as shown in the comprehensive cmdlet table.
Encrypts VirusTotal API keys on disk for security, a feature added in version 1.2, ensuring sensitive credentials are protected in automated workflows.
Supports files, URLs, domains, and IPs with advanced features like behavioral reports and community comments, evidenced by cmdlets such as Get-VTFileBehaviourReport and Set-VTFileComment.
Allows connections through HTTP proxies with credentials and certificate pinning, added in version 1.1, facilitating use in enterprise environments with network restrictions.
Cons
Relies on VirusTotal API v2, which may lack newer features available in v3, as stated in the README, potentially limiting access to updated threat intelligence capabilities.
Installation via a gist URL instead of the PowerShell Gallery raises security and maintenance concerns, as it bypasses standard module distribution channels and may not be regularly updated.
Designed for Windows PowerShell v3.0 or higher with no mention of PowerShell Core compatibility, making it less suitable for modern, cross-platform security teams using Linux or macOS.
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