VirusTotal
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VirusTotal is an online service that aggregates multiple antivirus engines and URL/domain scanners to analyze files and links for malware and other security threats.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| URLScan (historically, as add-on) | 1 |
| VirusTotal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8248697 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VirusTotal Context triple: [Maltego, canIntegrateWith, VirusTotal]
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A.
Punchscan
Punchscan is an end-to-end auditable, paper-based cryptographic voting system designed to provide strong voter privacy and verifiable election integrity.
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B.
Maltego
Maltego is a graphical link analysis and data mining tool widely used in digital forensics and open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigations.
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C.
Nessus
Nessus is a centaur in Greek mythology best known for his role in the death of Heracles after deceitfully causing the poisoned garment incident.
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D.
Sucuri
Sucuri is a website security company best known for its malware removal, firewall, and protection services for websites and online businesses.
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E.
Onionoo
Onionoo is a web-based protocol and service by The Tor Project that provides structured, real-time data about Tor network relays and bridges.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: VirusTotal Target entity description: VirusTotal is an online service that aggregates multiple antivirus engines and URL/domain scanners to analyze files and links for malware and other security threats.
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A.
Punchscan
Punchscan is an end-to-end auditable, paper-based cryptographic voting system designed to provide strong voter privacy and verifiable election integrity.
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B.
Maltego
Maltego is a graphical link analysis and data mining tool widely used in digital forensics and open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigations.
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C.
Nessus
Nessus is a centaur in Greek mythology best known for his role in the death of Heracles after deceitfully causing the poisoned garment incident.
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D.
Sucuri
Sucuri is a website security company best known for its malware removal, firewall, and protection services for websites and online businesses.
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E.
Onionoo
Onionoo is a web-based protocol and service by The Tor Project that provides structured, real-time data about Tor network relays and bridges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cybersecurity service
ⓘ
online malware scanning service ⓘ software-as-a-service platform ⓘ website ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Google Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2012-09-07 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Spain ⓘ |
| dataPrivacyNote | submitted files and URLs may be shared with security partners and community (subject to terms) ⓘ |
| developer | VirusTotal LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Bernardo Quintero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAccessModel |
free tier
ⓘ
paid enterprise tier ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
YARA rule matching
ⓘ
community comments ⓘ detection ratio display ⓘ downloadable reports via API ⓘ file and URL tagging ⓘ file behavior reports ⓘ graph-based relationship visualization ⓘ historical scan data ⓘ intelligence search queries ⓘ network traffic analysis (for some sandboxes) ⓘ per-engine detection results ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2004 ⓘ |
| offers |
IP address scanning
ⓘ
URL scanning ⓘ domain scanning ⓘ file scanning ⓘ hash lookup ⓘ reputation analysis ⓘ threat intelligence data ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Chronicle Security
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Google LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Alphabet Inc.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Google LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
URL and domain reputation checking
ⓘ
incident response support ⓘ malware detection ⓘ threat hunting ⓘ |
| requires | user registration for advanced features ⓘ |
| supports |
REST API
ⓘ
browser extensions ⓘ command-line tools via API clients ⓘ private API access ⓘ public web interface ⓘ |
| supportsFileUploadSize | up to 650 MB via web interface (approximate, may change) ⓘ |
| uses |
URL reputation engines
ⓘ
multiple antivirus engines ⓘ sandbox analysis systems ⓘ |
| website | https://www.virustotal.com ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: VirusTotal Description of subject: VirusTotal is an online service that aggregates multiple antivirus engines and URL/domain scanners to analyze files and links for malware and other security threats.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
URLScan (historically, as add-on)