virustotal
VirusTotal web crawler for security
About this crawler
virustotal is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern virustotal in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block virustotal traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- virustotal
- Pattern
virustotal- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url
- Added
- 2021/09/22
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 9.0; en-US) AppEngine-Google; (+http://code.google.com/appengine; appid: s~virustotalcloud)
AppEngine-Google; (+http://code.google.com/appengine; appid: s~virustotalcloud)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow virustotal:
User-agent: virustotal
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} virustotal [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "virustotal") {
return 403;
}
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