Package: virustotal 0.6.0

Gaurav Sood

virustotal: R Client for the VirusTotal API

Provides a comprehensive R interface to the VirusTotal API v3.0, a Google service that analyzes files and URLs for viruses, worms, trojans and other malware. Features include file/URL scanning, domain categorization, passive DNS information, IP reputation analysis, IoC relationships, sandbox analysis, and comment/voting systems. Implements rate limiting, error handling, and response validation for robust security analysis workflows.

Authors:Gaurav Sood [aut, cre]

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manual.pdf |manual.html✨
DESCRIPTION |NEWS
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virustotal/json (API)

# Install 'virustotal' in R:

install.packages('virustotal', repos = c('https://themains.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/themains/virustotal/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://themains.github.io

On CRAN:

cybersecurity scan-files trojans virustotal

6.00 score 13 stars 1 packages 17 scripts 560 downloads 56 exports 25 dependencies

Last updated from:63d05ffc45. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	246
source / vignettes	OK	172
linux-release-x86_64	OK	216
macos-release-arm64	OK	248
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	246
windows-devel	OK	161
windows-release	OK	154
windows-oldrel	OK	150
wasm-release	OK	111

Exports:domain_report download_file file_report get_analysis get_behaviour_evtx get_behaviour_html get_behaviour_memdump get_behaviour_pcap get_behaviour_report get_domain_comments get_domain_info get_domain_relationship get_domain_votes get_file_behaviour_mitre_trees get_file_behaviour_summary get_file_behaviours get_file_comments get_file_download_url get_file_relationships get_file_upload_url get_file_votes get_ip_comments get_ip_info get_ip_votes get_url_comments get_url_relationships get_url_votes ip_report is_api_key_configured post_domain_comments post_domain_votes post_file_comments post_file_votes post_ip_comments post_ip_votes post_url_comments post_url_votes rescan_domain rescan_file rescan_ip rescan_url scan_file scan_url set_key url_report virustotal_auth_error virustotal_domain_report virustotal_error virustotal_file_report virustotal_file_scan virustotal_info virustotal_ip_report virustotal_rate_limit_error virustotal_url_scan virustotal_validation_error virustotal_version

Dependencies:askpass backports base64enc checkmate cli curl dplyr generics glue httr jsonlite lifecycle magrittr mime openssl pillar pkgconfig R6 rlang sys tibble tidyselect utf8 vctrs withr

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Last update: 2026-04-01
Started: 2016-05-11

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Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Get Domain Report	domain_report
Download a file from VirusTotal	download_file
Get File Scan Report	file_report
Get Analysis Results	get_analysis
Get Behaviour EVTX File	get_behaviour_evtx
Get Behaviour HTML Report	get_behaviour_html
Get Behaviour Memory Dump	get_behaviour_memdump
Get Behaviour PCAP File	get_behaviour_pcap
Get Behaviour Report	get_behaviour_report
Retrieve comments for an Internet domain	get_domain_comments
Retrieve information about an Internet domain	get_domain_info
Retrieve related objects to an Internet domain	get_domain_relationship
Retrieve votes for an Internet domain	get_domain_votes
Get File Behaviour MITRE ATT&CK Trees	get_file_behaviour_mitre_trees
Get File Behaviour Summary	get_file_behaviour_summary
Get File Behaviours	get_file_behaviours
Retrieve comments for a file	get_file_comments
Get download URL for a file	get_file_download_url
Retrieve relationships for a file	get_file_relationships
Get file upload URL for large files	get_file_upload_url
Retrieve votes for a file	get_file_votes
Retrieve comments for an IP address	get_ip_comments
Retrieve information about an IP address	get_ip_info
Retrieve votes for an IP address	get_ip_votes
Retrieve comments for a URL	get_url_comments
Retrieve relationships for a URL	get_url_relationships
Retrieve votes for a URL	get_url_votes
Get IP Address Report	ip_report
Add a comment to an Internet domain	post_domain_comments
Add a vote for a hostname or domain	post_domain_votes
Add a comment to a file	post_file_comments
Add a vote to a file	post_file_votes
Add a comment to an IP address	post_ip_comments
Add a vote for an IP address	post_ip_votes
Add a comment to a URL	post_url_comments
Add a vote to a URL	post_url_votes
Request rescan of a domain	rescan_domain
Request rescan of a file	rescan_file
Request rescan of an IP address	rescan_ip
Request rescan of a URL	rescan_url
Submit a file for scanning	scan_file
Submit URL for scanning	scan_url
Set VirusTotal API Key	set_key
Get URL Report	url_report
Print package information and configuration status	virustotal_info
Get package version information	virustotal_version