rescan_file: Rescan already submitted files

In virustotal: R Client for the VirusTotal API

Description

The function returns a data.frame with a scan_id and sha256, sha1, md5 hashes, all of which can be used to retrieve the report using file_report

Usage

rescan_file(hash = NULL, ...)

Arguments

hash	Hash for the scan. String. Required.
...	Additional arguments passed to virustotal2_POST.

Value

data.frame with 12 columns: scans, scan_id, sha1, resource, response_code, scan_date, permalink, verbose_msg, total, positives, sha256, md5 response_code is 0 if the file is not in the database (hash can't be found).

References

https://developers.virustotal.com/v2.0/reference

See Also

set_key for setting the API key

Examples

## Not run: 

# Before calling the function, set the API key using set_key('api_key_here')

rescan_file(hash='99017f6eebbac24f351415dd410d522d')
rescan_file(hash='99017f6ee51415dd410d522d') # incorrect hash

## End(Not run)

virustotal documentation built on Nov. 4, 2021, 9:08 a.m.