VirusTotal AlternativesTop Anti-Virus & Anti-Malware Apps like VirusTotal

VirusTotal is described as 'Analyse suspicious files, domains, IPs and URLs to detect malware and other breaches, automatically share them with the security community' and is a leading Anti-Virus app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 50 alternatives to VirusTotal for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Linux, SaaS and Mac apps. The best VirusTotal alternative is Jotti's malware scan, which is free. Other great apps like VirusTotal are MetaDefender, Hybrid-Analysis.com, ANY.RUN and Cuckoo Sandbox.

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  1. Jotti's malware scan is a free service that lets you scan suspicious files with several anti-virus programs. You can submit up to 5 files at the same time. There is a 250MB limit per file. Please be aware that no security solution offers 100% protection, not even when it...

    35 Jotti's malware scan alternatives

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    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  2. MetaDefender icon
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    MetaDefender Cloud helps organizations build a long-term strategy and processes for critical infrastructure protection, providing the tools to prevent not only cyberattacks but also the correlated consequences.

    32 MetaDefender alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    • Online
    • Google Chrome
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  3. Hybrid-Analysis.com is a free malware analysis service powered by payload-security.com. Using this service you can submit files for in-depth behavior analysis.

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  4. ANY.RUN icon
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    ANY.RUN is interactive sandbox simplifies malware analysis of threats that target both Windows and Linux systems. ANY.RUN's threat intelligence products, TI Lookup, Yara Search and Feeds, help you find IOCs or files to learn more about the threats and respond to incidents faster.

    47 ANY.RUN alternatives

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  5. Cuckoo Sandbox icon
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    Cuckoo Sandbox is a modular, automated malware analysis system. Running from command-line on a Linux or Mac host, it uses python and virtualization (VirtualBox, QEMU-KVM, etc) to create an isolated Windows guest environment to safely and automatically run and analyze files to...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
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  6. urlscan.io icon
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    urlscan.io is a free service to scan and analyse websites. When a URL is submitted to urlscan.io, an automated process will browse to the URL like a regular user and record the activity that this page navigation creates.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  7. This is a fork of the original (and discontinued) app, which is still looking for maintainers. Please consider to apply to keep this app maintained !

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  8. Triage icon
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    Hatching Triage is our state-of-the-art malware analysis sandbox designed for cross-platform support (Windows, Android, Linux, and macOS), high-volume malware analysis capabilities, and malware configuration extraction for dozens of malware families.

    31 Triage alternatives

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    • Online
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  9. Joe Sandbox  icon
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    Joe Sandbox detects and analyzes potential malicious files and URLs on Windows, Android, Mac OS, Linux, and iOS for suspicious activities. It performs deep malware analysis and generates comprehensive and detailed analysis reports.

    37 Joe Sandbox alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Online
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  10. The industry's leading privacy-oriented threat intelligence and file reputation solution. Available via AWS cloud, or locally hosted in your environment. Full support available for private network deployments.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Threat.Zone icon
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    Threat.Zone is a hypervisor-based, automated and interactive tool for analyzing malware, you can fight new generation malwares.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. alphaMountain icon
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    Security vendors and organizations use alphaMountain's domain and IP threat intelligence data to make their security products and programs more secure. By leveraging the latest in machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence, alphaMountain instantly classifies any...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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