Malware detection

that outperforms VirusTotal.

Discover Recorded Future's AI-powered analysis and threat attribution—powered by dynamic sandboxing and automated YARA rules. Accelerate your malware detection and response times.

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Don’t get locked into a single ecosystem.

Keeping malware analysis tools does not need to be a costly migration to a large vendor with up to 3x price increases, especially if there's no value-add in increased context, automation capabilities, and more.

Recorded Future's Malware Intelligence is derived from our unified and leading Threat Intelligence Module. Get more out of your malware detection with greater functionality, adaptability and integrations into your existing security stack than standalone alternatives.

How Recorded Future compares to VirusTotal Enterprise.

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VirusTotal Enterprise
Dynamic sandboxing with dropped file execution

With behavior analysis of 1.5M+ files daily and C2 tracking for full visibility.

Multi-sandbox, but no dropped file detonation.

Natural Language Search (NLS)

User can ask contextual questions.

Only supports keyword-based queries.

Enhanced search by NLS, TTPs, IOCs, and behaviors

Real-time context on malware, threat actors, and IOCs.

Only performs search by YARA rules or IOCs.

Auto YARA rule creation

Unlimited auto-generated YARA rules to eliminate manual rule writing and identify emerging malware families. Learn more.

Manual creation with basic pattern suggestions.

Risk scoring

Contextual and dynamic Recorded Future Risk Score based on malware traits.

Static count of AV engine detections.

Native threat attribution and integrated threat context

Connects malware to threat actors, MITRE TTPs, and infrastructure for full attack chain insight.

Completely reliant on Google CTI for context.

Prioritized alerting

Alerts based on behaviors, malware traits, or actor TTPs.

Alerts only from asset watchlists (VT Alerts) and YARA rule matches (Livehunt).

Vendor-neutral integrations

Flexible APIs and integrates with Google Secops (Google Chronicle), Splunk Enterprise, Sentinel, Palo Alto, and more.

Limited integrations with manual scripting required to support more.

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Free Sandbox Tool

Gain insight into the depth and breadth of intelligence we provide in malware analysis and the capabilities of Intelligence Cloud.

Upload and analyze malware samples in a customizable environment that offers detections and configuration extraction for a number of malware families.

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See what our customers are saying.

One thing that sets Malware Intelligence apart is how helpful the rule/search creation is, and how easy it is to pivot into the actual sandbox reports—that’s extremely useful.

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Large Enterprise Internet Software & Services Company

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Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

Large Enterprise Banks Company

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VirusTotal’s sandbox lacked the detail we needed. With Recorded Future, we gain deep insights into command lines, signatures, and process behaviors.

SOC Manager

Airline Security Operations Center

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We identified a live C2 marked clean by VirusTotal. Recorded Future confirmed it was malicious—helping us uncover a critical blind spot.

Comprehensive Cancer Institution

Specialized Consulting Firm

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