Abuse. ch launched the MalwareBazaar service, a malware repository to allow experts to share known malware samples and related info.
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The service allows users to share malware samples, download samples from the repository and implements searching features. Users could search for a specific malware family and filter malware using Hashes and TAGS.
“As many IT-security researchers, I’m heavily using public available information (OSINT) for hunting down new cyber threats. OSINT is a great resource for this threat intelligence! However, I often get confronted with a simple but severe problem: malware samples referenced in blog posts,
The service allows users to access information about malware samples distributed via
The idea behind MalwareBaazar is to make it easy the circulation of malware samples in the community, and make it for free instead of using paid services.
“This was the motivation for launching MalwareBazaar: A malware corpus where IT-security researchers can easily share malware samples with the community without hitting download restrictions all the time or having to pay expensive subscription fees,” abuse
Unlike VirusTotal, MalwareBazaar does not implement a multi anti-virus scanner, but allows anyone to download submitted samples, for free (VirusTotal makes submitted files available to paying customers only).
Unlike VirusTotal, MalwareBazaar does not accept benign files.
“VirusTotal is a great resource for
- While you can upload as many files to VirusTotal as you want, downloading malware samples from VirusTotal is restricted to paying users only
- As of March 2020, only 1/3 of all uploaded files are detected by at least one AV-endinge (VirusTotal Statistics). So it appears that 2/3 of all uploaded samples are benign
MalwareBazaar follows a different approach:
MalwareBazaar only tracks malware samples. No Adware (PUA/PUP). No benign filesMalwareBazaar is not a multi antivirus scanning engine- You can upload and download as many malware samples as you want
- It’s completely free!“
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