Get a private file report

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Private Scanning endpoints are only available to users with Private Scanning license.

This endpoint return information about a file scanned privately. Notice that it only accepts SHA-256 as the file's ID, MD5 and SHA-1 are not supported like in its GET /files/{id} public counterpart. The SHA-256 for the analysed file can be computed by yourself or obtained from the response to the call to GET /analyses/{id}.

{
  "data": {
    "attributes": {
      "sha1": "7bae8076a5771865123be7112468b79e9d78a640",
      "magic": "ASCII text",
      "tags": [
        "text"
      ],
      "exiftool": {
        "MIMEType": "text/plain",
        "LineCount": "1",
        "MIMEEncoding": "us-ascii",
        "FileTypeExtension": "txt",
        "FileType": "TXT",
        "WordCount": "1",
        "Newlines": "Unix LF"
      },
      "trid": [
        {
          "file_type": "file seems to be plain text/ASCII",
          "probability": 0.0
        }
      ],
      "vhash": "9eecb7db59d16c80417c72d1e1f4fbf1",
      "sha256": "11a77c3d96c06974b53d7f40a577e6813739eb5c811b2a86f59038ea90add772",
      "ssdeep": "3:tdn:T",
      "md5": "e5828c564f71fea3a12dde8bd5d27063",
      "size": 5
    },
    "type": "private_file",
    "id": "11a77c3d96c06974b53d7f40a577e6813739eb5c811b2a86f59038ea90add772",
    "links": {
      "self": "https://www.virustotal.com/api/v3/private/files/11a77c3d96c06974b53d7f40a577e6813739eb5c811b2a86f59038ea90add772"
    }
  }
}
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