Detect and Remove Malicious Files With Malware Scanner

Detect and remove malicious files with malware scanner API  and remove malicious files with malware scanner API Protect your users from viruses, spyware, ransomware, trojans, keyloggers and other types of malware by automatically scanning uploaded files. Scan and verify whether a file is clean or not, quarantine and alert the user before the file can be opened by them. Easily integrate virus scanning into your application, web app or any other workflow that uses file uploads. The Virus Scanner API uses the well-known antivirus software VirusTotal to scan submitted files.

Its heuristic-based detection engine looks for signatures in the submitted file to identify malicious programs and return results indicating if a submitted file is clean or not. The API provides detailed results for each of the analyzed engines as well as summary details like the number of detected programs in the submitted file. VirusTotal responses are in JSON format that needs to be correctly deserialized before use in your application.

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While Apple’s notarization is effective against known malware, hackers can still inject adware or other programs into files that aren’t identified by Apple’s security rules or file hashes. This happens through various attacks such as phishing, spam, domain reputation, NSFW and other threats that can hide in plain sight within file uploads.

Uploadcare’s virus detection is based on the open source ClamAV software that uses a signature-based approach to identify malware. It supports more than 17 million virus and malware signatures with continuous cloud-based updates. It also offers wide file format support, high-speed in-memory scanning and other advanced capabilities.