IP address search modifiers

VirusTotal Intelligence allows you to perform advanced faceted searches over the historical collection of IP addresses seen by VirusTotal. These searches can act on basically all the metadata generated for IPs: autonomous system, country, whois, SSL certificate, community comments, detections, relationships, etc. For example, you can pivot on SSL certificate fields to try to identify other network infrastructure set up by a given adversary.

VirusTotal Intelligence searches by default over the historical collection of files, in order to search over IPs you need to add the facet condition entity:ip. For example, let's ask for all those IP addresses that have been detected by more than 5 blocklists:

entity:ip positives:5+

You can click on the filter icon inside the main search box in order to navigate to an IP address search assistant:

Note that the assistant will not allow you to build complex searches combining AND, OR and NOT conditions. For example:

entity:ip positives:5+ AND (aso:ovh OR aso:google)

The following table describes all the search modifiers (facets) that can be used, you can combine any number of them:

Modifier	Description
ip	Narrow down a search to a given IP address range. Example: entity:ip ip:"8.8.8.8/24"
asn autonomous_system_number:	Narrow down a search to a given autonomous system (by number). Example: entity:ip asn:"15169"
aso autonomous_system_owner:	Narrow down a search to a given autonomous system (by organization). Example: entity:ip as_owner:"Google LLC"
country	Country where IPs matching a given criteria should be located. ISO ALPHA 2 code required. Example: entity:ip country:us
continent	Continent where IPs matching a given criteria should be located. ISO ALPHA 2 code required. Example: entity:ip continent:eu
comment	Search for IPs that have a VirusTotal Community comment containing the word or phrase provided. Example: entity:ip comment:phishing
comment_author	Search for domains that have been commented by the user with the username provided. Example: entity:ip comment:hugoklugman
p positives	Filter IPs according to the number of engines/blocklists that detect them. Less than and greater than syntax is allowed. Examples: entity:ip p:5+
engines	Focus on IPs that have a given detection label by at least one blocklist/scanner. Example: entity:ip engines:phishing
*<engine name>*	Focus on IPs that are detected with a given label by a given blocklist/scanner. Example: entity:ip eset:phishing
reputation	Filter IPs according to their reputation among the VirusTotal user base. Example: entity:ip reputation:-20-
domain_resolutions_count	Search for IPs that have hosted a given number of domains. Accepts greater and less than syntax and saturates at a count of 100. Example: entity:ip domain_resolutions_count:20+ p:5+
detected_communicating_files_count	Fix a condition based on how many detected files have been seen contacting the given ip when executed in a sandbox. Less than and greater than syntax is allowed but the count saturates at 10. Example: entity:ip detected_communicating_files_count:5+
communicating_files_max_detections	Fix a condition based on the maximum number of detections observed for files that communicate with a given IP. Example: entity:ip communicating_files_max_detections:30+ detected_communicating_files_count:5+
detected_downloaded_files_count	Fix a condition based on how many detected files VirusTotal has downloaded from a URL hosted under a given IP address. Example: entity:ip detected_downloaded_files_count:10+
downloaded_files_max_detections	Fix a condition based on the maximum number of detections observed for files that were downloaded by VirusTotal from a given IP address. Example: entity:ip downloaded_files_max_detections:20+
detected_referring_files_count	Fix a condition based on how many detected files have been seen containing the given IP address in their strings. Example: entity:ip detected_referring_files_count:10+
referring_files_max_detections	Fix a condition based on the maximum number of detections observed for files that contain a given IP address in their strings. Example: entity:ip referring_files_max_detections:10+
detected_urls_count	Fix a condition based on how many detected URLs have been seen hosted under a given IP address. Example: entity:ip detected_urls_count:10+
urls_max_detections	Fix a condition based on the maximum number of detections observed for URLs hosted under a given IP address. Example: entity:ip urls_max_detections:5+ detected_urls_count:10+
tag	Filter IPs according to their tags. Example: entity:ip tag:reserved List of available tags: - *private:* private IP address space, e.g. 192.168.0.1. - *multicast:* IP address in the multicast range. - *link-local:* IP valid only for communications within the network segment. - *reserved:* reserved IP address space. - *loopback:* IP for the local machine.
ssl_issuer	Focus on IPs that contain a given string or fulltext pattern within their SSL certificate issuer field. Example: entity:ip ssl_issuer:"Starfield Secure Certificate Authority - G2"
ssl_serial	Focus on IPs that share a given SSL certificate serial field. Example: entity:ip ssl_serial:"99c942e5f4049537"
ssl_subject	Focus on IPs that contain a given string or fulltext pattern within their subject field. Example: entity:ip ssl_subject:"naranjamarketing.com"
ssl_thumbprint	Focus on IPs sharing a given SSL certificate thumbprint field. Example: entity:ip ssl_thumbprint:"f0d173c9009c172bc38062a0a295a4ef1c9e3336"
whois	Filter IPs according to any word or phrase contained within their Whois record. Example: entity:ip whois:"Hurricane Electric LLC"
have	Allows you to fix a condition that the IP’s indexed metadata should meet, it accepts any of the modifiers above and it means that the IP should have data for a given modifier. Example: entity:ip have:comment p:5+
last_modification_date: lm:	Filter IPs based on the latest update on VirusTotal for IP. Example: entity:ip last_modification_date:3d+
jarm	Filter IPs based on the JARM fingerprint. Example: entity:ip jarm:29d3fd00029d29d21c42d43d00041d188e8965256b2536432a9bd447ae607f
ssl_not_before	Filter IPs based on the start date of the last SSL certificates' validity. Example: entity:domain ssl_not_before:2023-10-01
ssl_not_after	Filter IPs based on the end date of the last SSL certificates' validity. Example: entity:domain ssl_not_after:2023-10-01
threat_actor related_actor	Filter IPs which have that related threat actor. Example: entity:ip threat_actor:"Lazarus Group"
attribution	Filter IPs by malware family based on the verdicts provided by the data sources available in VirusTotal. Attribution can be of 3 types: malwares , actors or campaigns Example: entity:ip attribution:emotet