Virustotal

🚀 VirusTotal Server Configuration and Usage Guide

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of configuring and using the VirusTotal server tool, enabling efficient security analysis and threat detection.

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

Install via npm:

npm install mcp-virustotal-server -g

Configuration Steps

1. Create a configuration file:

   mkdir ~/.config/mcp-virustotal-server
   nano ~/.config/mcp-virustotal-server/config.json
   

2. Add the following content to the config.json file:

   {
     "port": 8090,
     "vtApiKey": "your_virus_total_api_key_here"
   }
   

3. Start the service:

   mcp-virustotal-server
   

Quick Usage Example

Query a file hash:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8090/file \
     --form file=@/path/to/file

✨ Features

Core Features

• File Analysis: Supports malware detection by uploading files or providing hash values.
• URL Scanning: Checks the security of specified URLs, including network and reputation analysis.
• IP Analysis: Evaluates the reputation of specific IP addresses.

Advanced Features

• Custom Thresholds: Adjust the sensitivity of threat detection according to your needs.
• Logging: Records all operations and results in detail for auditing and tracing.
• Multi-threaded Processing: Improves the efficiency of large-scale data processing.

📚 Documentation

Log Management

By default, the log file is located at /tmp/mcp-virustotal-server.log. You can specify another storage path by modifying the logFile parameter in the configuration file:

{
  "port": 8090,
  "vtApiKey": "your_api_key",
  "logFile": "/var/log/virus_total.log"
}

Security Enhancement

• SSL Encryption: Enable HTTPS to ensure communication security.
• Access Control: Restrict service access by configuring IP whitelists or blacklists.

🔧 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

1. API Errors
   • Check the API error information in the log file /tmp/mcp-virustotal-server.log.
   • Confirm the validity and correctness of the VirusTotal API key.
2. Module Loading Issues
   • Use the global installation method to avoid module loading warnings.
   • In the development environment, ensure that the running command includes the --experimental-modules parameter.

Detailed Error Handling

The service has a comprehensive error capture mechanism, covering:

• Invalid API keys
• Request rate limits
• Network connection interruptions
• Invalid input parameters

🛠️ Development Guide

Running and Debugging

npm run dev

Contributing Code

1. Fork the project repository.
2. Create a feature branch:

   git checkout -b feature/new-feature-name
   

3. Commit your changes and push them to the branch.
4. Submit a Pull Request.

📈 Version Update Log

• v1.0.0: Initial release, including basic functions.
• v1.1.0: Added a relationship analysis tool.
• v1.2.0: Optimized error handling and the logging system.
• v1.3.0: Introduced pagination support to improve data processing efficiency.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. Please refer to the LICENSE file for details.

With the above guide, you can easily configure and use the VirusTotal server tool for efficient security analysis and threat detection.