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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).

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 57.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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 - Zipping files API

Private Scanning - Zipping files

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 - Retrohunt API

YARA Hunting - Retrohunt

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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).

Scroll 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

10 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

Semantic 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

30 classes · 156 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

VirusTotal API Rules

40 rules · 15 errors · 19 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AttackTacticObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AttackTechniqueObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CommentObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DomainObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FileBehaviourObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FileObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GraphObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GroupObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IocStreamNotificationObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IpAddressObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LivehuntRulesetObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PopularThreatCategoryObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RetrohuntJobObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UrlObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UserObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoteObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

YaraRuleObject

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal Attack Tactic Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal Collection Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal Comment Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal Domain Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal File Behaviour Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal File Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal Graph Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal Group Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal Ip Address Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal Retrohunt Job Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal Url Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal User Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal Vote Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Virustotal Yara Rule Object Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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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.

Virustotal Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Virustotal Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Virustotal Agentic Access

206 operations · 56 acting · 11 human-in-the-loop

206 operations · 56 acting

AGENTIC

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.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/virustotal · machine-readable index on apis.io