Alerts allows you to receive notifications on additions and changes in the VirusTotal dataset.

We currently support the following types of alerts:

• Domain alerts
• IP-based alerts
• Brand-based alerts
• Detection Categories
• Use-Case Categories and Detection Categories

Domain alerts

Based on your domain, we’ll monitor events that involve your domain, or any of the URLs under it.

These include:

• Domain has positives
• URL under the domain has positives
• Domain was found in the raw binary body of a file with positives
• A file with positives is communicating with this domain, or with an URL under it
• A file with positives was downloaded from an URL in this domain
• Domain was found as a subdomain of another domain or URL with positives (subdomain abuse)
• Another domain is potentially typosquatting this domain

IP-based alerts

Based on your IP address or range, we’ll monitor events that involve those.

These include:

• IP in the range provided has positives
• URL/Domain resolving to an IP in the range has positives
• IP in the range was found in the raw binary body of a file with positives
• A file with positives is communicating with an IP in the range
• A file with positives was downloaded from an IP in the range

Brand-based alerts

Based on the domain for your brand, and optionally, custom HTML or strings, we’ll monitor events involving those.

These include:

• Similar favicons to your domain’s are used in URLs with positives
• Strings/HTML snippets you provided are found in URLs with positives

All the notifications have the following properties:

• Date and time of match
• Severity
• Type of entity the notification is about (IPs, Domains, URLs, and Files)
• Detection category of the event
• Use-Case category of the event

Detection Categories

Available detection categories are:

• Brand Matching
• Detected Domain
• Detected IP
• Detected URL
• Domain Typosquatting
• Favicon Reuse
• File communicating with Domain
• File communicating with IP
• File communicating with URL
• File downloaded from Domain
• File downloaded from IP
• File downloaded from URL
• Pattern found in raw binary body of file
• Subdomain Abuse

Use-Case Categories and Detection Categories

These are the available use-case categories, with the matching detection categories:

• Corporate Infrastructure Abuse

Which includes the following detection categories:

• Detected domains
• Detected IPs
• Detected URLs
• Detected (domain/URL) in IP range
• Downloaded files
• Communicating files
• Phishing & Counterfeiting

Which includes the following detection categories:

• Domain Typosquatting
• Icon Reuse
• Subdomain Abuse
• Brand Impersonation

Which includes the following detection categories:

• Icon Reuse
• String/HTML matches
• Potential False Positives

Which includes the following detection categories:

• Detected domains, IPs, URLs with just 1 positive