virustotal

virustotal is a skill for Codex from san-npm/skills-ws. It costs 70 tokens per session (5,066 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using VirusTotal, a service that compares files, links, domains, and IP addresses with many security scanners and threat-data sources. It covers both command-line and Python use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate URLs, files, domains, and IP addresses, examine related indicators, run private scans where appropriate, and triage security findings with surrounding evidence.
Why use it?
It helps organise threat checks and interpret scanner results as clues rather than proof that something is safe or malicious. It also highlights that submitted files and links may become visible to VirusTotal partners.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to investigate URLs, files, domains, and IP addresses, examine related indicators, run private scans where appropriate, and triage security findings with surrounding evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/san-npm/skills-ws/virustotal
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add san-npm/skills-ws --skill virustotal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/san-npm/skills-ws

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for virustotal

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/virustotal/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/virustotal)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/virustotal"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/virustotal/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for virustotal

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/virustotal"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/san-npm/skills-ws/virustotal.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,066 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00070 $0.05066
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.02533
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01013
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00507

Measured 5d ago against content hash 95d17f9f3342, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

virustotal scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

ANALYSIS_ID=$(curl -s -X POST -H "x-apikey: $VT_API_KEY" \
skills/virustotal/SKILL.md · 353 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 353 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VirusTotal Scanner

Look up and triage URLs, files, domains, and IPs against VirusTotal's multi-engine aggregation (70+ AV engines, sandboxes, and crowd-sourced threat data).

VirusTotal is evidence, not proof. Aggregated AV verdicts are a signal, not a clean bill of health. Zero detections never means "safe" (see the triage rubric below), and a few detections never means "definitely malware." Always combine VT data with context: file provenance, prevalence, behavior, and the relationships VT exposes.

Privacy & confidentiality — read before submitting anything

Submitting a file or URL (vt scan file, vt scan url, client.scan_file/scan_url) uploads it to VirusTotal, where it becomes available to VirusTotal's premium customers, threat-intel partners, and antivirus vendors. Filenames, document metadata, embedded paths, certificates, and any secrets inside the file/URL (tokens, query-string credentials, internal hostnames) are exposed and effectively permanent and non-retractable.

Hard rules:

  • Do NOT upload proprietary source, customer data, signed internal binaries, credentials, private keys, internal/staging URLs, or live incident artifacts without explicit owner approval.
  • Hash-first. Before uploading a file, look it up by hash (vt file <sha256>). A hash lookup discloses nothing about the file's contents — only whether VT has seen that exact hash. Upload only when the hash is unknown and you're authorized to disclose the sample.
  • URLs leak too. A URL with a session token or PII in the query string discloses those values. Strip secrets, or look up the domain/host reputation instead of submitting the full URL.
  • For sensitive samples, use Private Scanning (VT Enterprise / Google Threat Intelligence) — files are analyzed in isolation and not shared with the community or vendors. See the Private Scanning section.
  • Public-API licensing limit: the free/public API "must not be used in commercial products or services" or in business workflows that don't contribute new files. Commercial/automated use requires a Premium/Enterprise key.

Read the full file on GitHub · 353 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 353 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 95d17f9f3342

Subscribe to this mod's changes

virustotal is a skill published in the GitHub repository san-npm/skills-ws (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 5,066 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-07.

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