Hands$-$On Projects

Project $3-1$ Analyze File and URL for File$-$Based Viruses Using VirusTotal$$Part $1$

Time Required: $25$ minutes

Objective: Given a scenario, analyze potential indicators to determine the type of attack.

Description: VirusTotal is a free online service that analyzes files and URLs to identify potential malware. VirusTotal combines $70$ antivirus scanners and URL$/$domain blacklisting services along with other tools to identify malware. A wide range of files can be submitted to VirusTotal for examination, such as user data files and documents, executable programs, PDFs$,$ and images. One of the uses of VirusTotal is to provide a $$second opinion$$ on a file or URL that may have been flagged as suspicious by other scanning software. In this project, you use VirusTotal to scan a file and a URL.