Is malware abusing your infrastructure? Find out with VirusTotal!

Any organization’s infrastructure might inadvertently be abused by attackers as part of a malicious campaign. It is therefore important to monitor any suspicious activity. VirusTotal can help you identify these threats and improve your threat detection and protection capabilities. In this post we will first analyze different available search modifiers and then we will provide different templates to quickly deploy infrastructure monitoring rules.

Hunting for infrastructure abuses

VirusTotal Intelligence allows you to search VT’s extensive dataset for domains, URLs, IP addresses and files. You can find some examples on using search modifiers in our previous blog post.
You can use entity: domain or entity: url along parent_domain (entity:domain parent_domain:file.io or entity:url parent_domain:file.io) search modifiers to find VT details on your infrastructure. You can always adjust the results with the antivirus detection ratio (positives or p keyword).
For IP addresses we can use the ip search modifier, also valid for IP ranges:

The domain/URL/IP rep

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