VirusTotal AI
Google's threat analysis service with AI-powered code explanation and malware report generation.
Overview
VirusTotal is Google's internet security service that allows users and organisations to scan files, URLs, IP addresses, and domains against 70+ antivirus engines and website scanners simultaneously. Since 2023, VirusTotal has integrated AI capabilities — primarily Code Insight, which uses AI to generate plain-English explanations of potentially malicious code — making its threat analysis more accessible to less-experienced security analysts.
The Code Insight feature uses Google's Generative AI to analyse script files (PowerShell, Bash, etc.) found in suspicious submissions and provides a plain-English description of what the code does, what threat behaviour it may exhibit, and what indicators of compromise (IoCs) to look for. This makes the deep technical analysis accessible to tier-1 SOC analysts who may not be reverse engineering experts.
VirusTotal processes 1 million files per day submitted by users worldwide, creating one of the most comprehensive threat intelligence databases in existence. The collective intelligence approach — where submission data is aggregated across all users — means that a newly submitted malware sample is immediately available for all users to scan against. The service is free for individuals with API access available for enterprise integration.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 8 May 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
Use cases
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VirusTotal AI in Southeast Asia
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VirusTotal (Google-owned) layers AI, notably Code Insight, on top of the industry's largest crowd-sourced malware and threat-intelligence corpus, using LLMs to summarise and explain what suspicious files, scripts and binaries actually do. The AI explanations meaningfully speed triage for analysts who would otherwise reverse-engineer or read raw multi-engine verdicts, and the underlying dataset and 70+ engine aggregation remain an industry standard.
It suits SOC analysts, malware researchers and incident responders who already live in VirusTotal and want faster, plainer-language insight. Caveats: AI summaries can be confidently wrong and must be verified, the genuinely valuable enterprise/intelligence tiers are expensive, and uploaded samples are shared with the community so confidential files should never be submitted. Globally available with a mature, well-documented API; ASEAN access is straightforward, with no region-specific data-residency guarantees.
Notable facts
- VirusTotal was founded in 2004 by a Spanish cybersecurity researcher and acquired by Google in 2012 for an undisclosed sum.
- The service processes over 1 million files per day and maintains one of the world's largest malware databases with over 3 billion unique samples.
- VirusTotal's Code Insight AI feature can explain what a 200-line obfuscated PowerShell script does in 3 sentences — a task that would take a trained analyst 30 minutes.
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