Analyses

Partner contributors' analyses for files and URLs.

An Analysis object represents an analysis of a URL or file submitted to VirusTotal, against all our partnered contributors. It's attributes are:

  • date: <integer> Unix epoch UTC time (seconds).
  • results: <dictionary> dictionary having the engine's name as key and its result as value. Its subfields are:
    • category: <string> normalised result. Possible values are:
      • "confirmed-timeout" (AV reached a timeout when analysing that file. Only returned in file analyses.)
      • "failure" (AV failed when analysing this file. Only returned in file analyses).
      • "harmless" (AV thinks the file is not malicious),
      • "undetected" (AV has no opinion about this file),
      • "suspicious" (AV thinks the file is suspicious),
      • "malicious" (AV thinks the file is malicious).
      • "type-unsupported" (AV can't analyse that file. Only returned in file analyses).
    • engine_name: <string> the engine's name.
    • engine_update: <string> the engine's update date in %Y%M%D format. Only returned in file analyses.
    • engine_version: <string> the engine's version. Only returned in file analyses.
    • method: <string> detection method.
    • result: <string> engine result. If there's no verdict available, it can be null.
  • stats: <dictionary> summary of the results field. It's subfields are:
    • confirmed-timeout: <integer> number of AV engines that reach a timeout when analysing that file.
    • failure: <integer> number of AV engines that fail when analysing that file.
    • harmless: <integer> number of reports saying that is harmless.
    • malicious: <integer> number of reports saying that is malicious.
    • suspicious: <integer> number of reports saying that is suspicious.
    • timeout: <integer> number of timeouts when analysing this URL/file.
    • type-unsupported: <integer> number of AV engines that don't support that type of file.
    • undetected: <integer> number of reports saying that is undetected.
  • status: <string> analysis status. Possible values are:
    • "completed" (the analysis is finished).
    • "queued" (the item is waiting to be analysed, the analysis object has empty results and stats).
    • "in-progress" (the file is being analysed, the analysis object has partial analysis results and stats).
{
  "data": {
    "attributes": {
    	 "date": <int:timestamp>,
       	"results": {
          	"<string>": {
            	"category": "<string>",
            	"engine_name": "<string>",
            	"engine_version": "<string>",
            	"engine_update": "<string>",
            	"method": "<string>",
            	"result": "<string>"
        	},
        	"stats": {
            	"confirmed-timeout": <int>,
           		"failure": <int>,
          		"harmless": <int>,
          		"malicious": <int>,
          		"suspicious": <int>,
          		"timeout": <int>,
           		"type-unsupported": <int>,
          		"undetected": <int>
        	},
        	"status": "<string>"      
    },
    "id": "<string>",
    "type": "analysis"
  }
}
{
    "data": {
        "attributes": {
            "date": 1591701363,
            "results": {
                "ALYac": {
                    "category": "malicious",
                    "engine_name": "ALYac",
                    "engine_update": "20200609",
                    "engine_version": "1.1.1.5",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "Dialer.Webdialer.F"
                },
                "Avast": {
                    "category": "malicious",
                    "engine_name": "Avast",
                    "engine_update": "20200609",
                    "engine_version": "18.4.3895.0",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "Win32:Dh-A [Heur]"
                },
                "Avast-Mobile": {
                    "category": "undetected",
                    "engine_name": "Avast-Mobile",
                    "engine_update": "20200609",
                    "engine_version": "200609-00",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": null
                },
                "CAT-QuickHeal": {
                    "category": "malicious",
                    "engine_name": "CAT-QuickHeal",
                    "engine_update": "20200609",
                    "engine_version": "14.00",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "Trojan.Webdial"
                },
                "ClamAV": {
                    "category": "malicious",
                    "engine_name": "ClamAV",
                    "engine_update": "20200608",
                    "engine_version": "0.102.3.0",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "Win.Trojan.Dialer-83"
                },
                "Comodo": {
                    "category": "malicious",
                    "engine_name": "Comodo",
                    "engine_update": "20200608",
                    "engine_version": "32518",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "Malware@#1o6vtbly4swmm"
                }
            },
            "stats": {
                "confirmed-timeout": 0,
                "failure": 0,
                "harmless": 0,
                "malicious": 5,
                "suspicious": 0,
                "timeout": 0,
                "type-unsupported": 0,
                "undetected": 1
            },
            "status": "in-progress"
        },
        "id": "8zc5dTFiYmMxOTEpNzMzZWZmODE1ND7mYjU1ZjY5Npk6MTU5MlcwMTM2Mw==",
        "type": "analysis"
    }
}
{
    "data": {
        "attributes": {
            "date": 1591701032,
            "results": {
                "ADMINUSLabs": {
                    "category": "harmless",
                    "engine_name": "ADMINUSLabs",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "clean"
                },
                "AegisLab WebGuard": {
                    "category": "harmless",
                    "engine_name": "AegisLab WebGuard",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "clean"
                },
                "AlienVault": {
                    "category": "harmless",
                    "engine_name": "AlienVault",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "clean"
                },
                "Antiy-AVL": {
                    "category": "harmless",
                    "engine_name": "Antiy-AVL",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "clean"
                },
                "Artists Against 419": {
                    "category": "harmless",
                    "engine_name": "Artists Against 419",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "clean"
                },
                "AutoShun": {
                    "category": "undetected",
                    "engine_name": "AutoShun",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "unrated"
                },
                "Avira": {
                    "category": "harmless",
                    "engine_name": "Avira",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "clean"
                },
                "BADWARE.INFO": {
                    "category": "harmless",
                    "engine_name": "BADWARE.INFO",
                    "method": "blacklist",
                    "result": "clean"
                }
            },
            "stats": {
                "harmless": 7,
                "malicious": 0,
                "suspicious": 0,
                "timeout": 0,
                "undetected": 1
            },
            "status": "completed"
        },
        "id": "u-9d11db1b0q1200ba75016e4c010bc93836366881d021a658ua7f85a8b65c3c1e-1591701032",
        "type": "analysis"
    }
}

Relationships

In addition to the previously described attributes, analyses objects contain relationships with other objects in our dataset that can be retrieved as explained in the Relationships section.

The following table shows a summary of available relationships.

RelationshipReturn object type
itemA single file or URL