VirusTotal
VirusTotal — the Google-owned (since 2012) threat intelligence platform that aggregates anti-malware engines and URL scanners to analyse files, URLs, IP addresses, and domains. The v3 API surfaces seven major areas: Access Control, IoC Feeds, IoC Investigation, Private Scanning, Threat Graphs, Threat Landscape & Vulnerability Intelligence, and YARA Hunting (Livehunt, Retrohunt, IoC Stream). Now also branded "Google Threat Intelligence" (GTI) for Enterprise customers, integrating Mandiant intelligence, Digital Threat Monitoring (DTM), and Attack Surface Management (ASM).
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles VirusTotal the way a machine reads it — 108 machine-readable artifacts across 35 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — VirusTotal scores 57.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile VirusTotal
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for VirusTotal. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 35
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Google Threat Intelligence - Attack Surface Management (ASM)
Enterprise add-on (formerly Mandiant Advantage ASM). Discovers and monitors an organisation's external attack surface, scoring exposures and prioritising remediation.
Google Threat Intelligence - Digital Threat Monitoring (DTM)
Enterprise add-on (formerly Mandiant Advantage DTM). Monitors the open, deep, and dark web for credential leaks, brand abuse, and adversary chatter referencing the customer.
VirusTotal Access Control - Group Management API
Access Control - Group Management
VirusTotal Access Control - Quota Management API
Access Control - Quota Management
VirusTotal Access Control - Service Account Management API
Access Control - Service Account Management
VirusTotal Access Control - User Management API
Access Control - User Management
VirusTotal IoC Feeds - Domain intelligence feed API
IoC Feeds - Domain intelligence feed
VirusTotal IoC Feeds - File intelligence feed API
IoC Feeds - File intelligence feed
VirusTotal IoC Feeds - IP intelligence feed API
IoC Feeds - IP intelligence feed
VirusTotal IoC Feeds - Sandbox analyses feed API
IoC Feeds - Sandbox analyses feed
VirusTotal IoC Feeds - URL intelligence feed API
IoC Feeds - URL intelligence feed
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - Analyses, Submissions & Operations API
IoC Investigation - Analyses, Submissions & Operations
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - Attack Tactics API
IoC Investigation - Attack Tactics
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - Attack Techniques API
IoC Investigation - Attack Techniques
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - Comments API
IoC Investigation - Comments
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - Domains & Resolutions API
IoC Investigation - Domains & Resolutions
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - Files API
IoC Investigation - Files
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - Files Behaviours API
IoC Investigation - Files Behaviours
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - IP addresses API
IoC Investigation - IP addresses
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - Popular Threat Categories API
IoC Investigation - Popular Threat Categories
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - Search & Metadata API
IoC Investigation - Search & Metadata
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - URLs API
IoC Investigation - URLs
VirusTotal IoC Investigation - Zipping files API
IoC Investigation - Zipping files
VirusTotal Private Scanning - Analyses API
Private Scanning - Analyses
VirusTotal Private Scanning - Files API
Private Scanning - Files
VirusTotal Private Scanning - Files Behaviours API
Private Scanning - Files Behaviours
VirusTotal Private Scanning - URLs API
Private Scanning - URLs
VirusTotal Private Scanning - Zipping files API
Private Scanning - Zipping files
VirusTotal Threat Graphs API
Threat Graphs
VirusTotal Threat Graphs Permissions & ACL API
Threat Graphs Permissions & ACL
VirusTotal Threat Landscape & Vulnerability Intelligence & Reports & Analysis API
Threat Landscape & Vulnerability Intelligence & Reports & Analysis
VirusTotal YARA Hunting - IoC Stream API
YARA Hunting - IoC Stream
VirusTotal YARA Hunting - Livehunt API
YARA Hunting - Livehunt
VirusTotal YARA Hunting - Retrohunt API
YARA Hunting - Retrohunt
VirusTotal YARA Hunting - Rules API
YARA Hunting - Rules
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Open Collections 7
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
VirusTotal API v3 - Access Control
OPEN COLLECTIONVirusTotal API v3 - IoC Feeds
OPEN COLLECTIONVirusTotal API v3 - IoC Investigation
OPEN COLLECTIONVirusTotal API v3 - Private Scanning
OPEN COLLECTIONVirusTotal API v3 - Threat Graphs
OPEN COLLECTIONScroll within the panel for all 7 ·
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Virustotal Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Virustotal Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Virustotal Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
VirusTotal API Rules
SPECTRALVirusTotal API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 19
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
AnalysisObject
JSON SCHEMAAttackTacticObject
JSON SCHEMAAttackTechniqueObject
JSON SCHEMACollectionObject
JSON SCHEMACommentObject
JSON SCHEMADomainObject
JSON SCHEMAFileBehaviourObject
JSON SCHEMAFileObject
JSON SCHEMAGraphObject
JSON SCHEMAGroupObject
JSON SCHEMAIocStreamNotificationObject
JSON SCHEMAIpAddressObject
JSON SCHEMALivehuntRulesetObject
JSON SCHEMAPopularThreatCategoryObject
JSON SCHEMARetrohuntJobObject
JSON SCHEMAUrlObject
JSON SCHEMAUserObject
JSON SCHEMAVoteObject
JSON SCHEMAYaraRuleObject
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JSON Structure 19
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Virustotal Analysis Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Attack Tactic Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Attack Technique Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Collection Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Comment Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Domain Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal File Behaviour Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal File Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Graph Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Group Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Ioc Stream Notification Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Ip Address Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Livehunt Ruleset Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Popular Threat Category Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Retrohunt Job Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Url Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal User Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Vote Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREVirustotal Yara Rule Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll within the panel for all 19 ·
Examples 19
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for VirusTotal — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 5
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 18
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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