Configure a given VirusTotal Monitor item (file or folder)

Is possible to set some file information/metadata into a MonitorItem by setting its details attribute, this information will be shared with Monitor Partners and should be used to give more context to them about the file in case of false positive. Folders does not support details.

import requests item_id = '<item-id>' url = "https://www.virustotal.com/api/v3/monitor/items/%s/config" % item_id data = {'data': { 'id': item_id, 'type': 'monitoritem', 'attributes': { 'details': 'This is file metadata.' }, }} response = requests.request("PATCH", url, data=json.dumps(data)) print(response.text)
{ "data": { "attributes": { "size": 49676, "sha1": "892392d4f28b2dbe8ae45115a38c079dbcb14e18", "first_detection_date": 1504175079, "sha256": "cb9f9c1b271daa19fc78138dfd9d37686b1edb35e381f205c0b59911d8a004e1", "next_analysis_date": 1504781041, "last_detections_count": 1, "last_analysis_date": 1504694733, "tags": [ "detected", "visible", "[ENGINE-NAME]" ], "creation_date": 1504174971, "item_type": "file", "creator_id": "fsantos", "last_analysis_results": { "[ENGINE-NAME]": { "category": "undetected", "engine_name": "[ENGINE-NAME]", "engine_version": "1.3.0.9330", "result": null, "method": "blacklist", "engine_update": "20170906" },... }, "details": "This is the metadata.", "path": "/test/tac.exe", "md5": "02c526e8efd42a1f57a75aa203cfb27f" }, "type": "monitoritem", "id": "[MONITOR-ID]" } }
Path Params
string
required

Monitor item identifier

Body Params
json
required
Defaults to {"id": "[MONITOR-ID]", "type": "monitoritem", "attributes": {"details": "This is file metadata."}}

MonitorItem obj

Headers
string
required

Your API key

Response

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